re: It’s storming in NOLA and Turbine 4 just shut down

I feel like they had a good chunk of funding setup, however bad state politics messed that up. The reality is that post Katrina the federal investment was made in the hurricane flood protection system ($15B) and no real focus was placed on the interior drainage power generation/feeder lines/pumps/drainage system. At one point the system was state of the art, but that was nearly 100 years ago and we all know how much Louisiana like to do regular maintenance and asset management….