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Originally Posted by Seaver
Well you're right. The rain kept coming, and with the storm surge it broke the levee. The problem is that everyone KNEW about this problem, it was built to survive a category 3, this was a category 5.
The fact that the city of NO has sunk below sea level is what caused the prolonged damage and promises to happen again.
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Don't have time at the moment to find the link, but did anyone else hear about how this was probably more like a category 3 in New Orleans???? I saw a news report on it, bout how when it hit land, it was a category 4, however New Orleans was on the more tame side of the storm and it's winds never really broke category 3 levels in New Orleans. If this is the case, the corps of engineers has more to answer for than simply building levees that could only withstand a level 3.... they would have to explain why their levee's didn't actually live up to their supposed level's of protection.