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 Picture note: This is one photo of many that provoked my thoughts of the sad irony of people's priorities these days.

[I could not find the photo of "...the stone steps where a house once stood.."]

In 2006, following the damage done by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, Congress authorized the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to begin a number of projects designed to reduce the risk to the New Orleans metropolitan area from a 100-year storm. One of the largest projects in this plan is the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal Lake Borgne Surge Reduction Project -- or IHNC Surge Barrier for short. The largest surge barrier of its kind in the world, it stretches about 2 miles across the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway and the Mississippi River Outlet, protecting some of the most vulnerable areas in the region. In this 12th segment of The Infrastructure Show podcast series, Host Professor Joseph Schofer of Northwestern University's Infrastructure Technology Institute and Tom Herman of Vocalo.org 89.5 FM talk with Rick Kendrick, Chief of Program Execution for the USCOE Hurricane Protection Office in New Orleans, which oversees the IHNC Surge Barrier. (26 min.) For more information, see the web-site: www.theinfrastructureshow.com