LA River links to Katrina
By Bill Karz • Oct 13th, 2006 • Category: green.
“The sun is shining in Southern California and all is well.”
This is the nonchalant callous quote proffered by the Mayor of Los Angeles in 1938, Frank L. Shaw, following a flood that killed more than one hundred people and left thousands homeless. Sound familiar…
Mayor Shaw was recalled for not only making this remark, but leading LA’s most corrupt government; as recounted some years later in James Ellroy’s film adapted crime novel, L.A. Confidential.
In the years following the flood, the good ol’ Army Corps of Engineers stepped in and began embedding the river in concrete. Fortunately, no levee has breached.
Bill Karz is Managing Editor, LosAngelesNomad.com
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