The government did promise New Orleans that they will have a pumping system to protect the city.
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No, the levees are man-made embankments, built in the hope of preventing the Mississippi River from flooding the surrounding area.
I am! I live in Gulfport, MS. The direct hit was in Gulfport, not New Orleans. New Orleans just happen to have poor quality levees.
Because the city is under sea level and the levees did not help.
Various levees around the city burst under pressure of the water. Causing some parts of New Orleans to flood.
New Orleans is basically weak to hurricanes because the city is below sea level and rely on 140 miles of levees that failed during hurricane Katrina.
The embankments are called levees. When the levees around New Orleans failed during and after Hurricane Katrina it led to catastrophic flooding. Note that money had been allocated for work on the levees prior to that but it was decided to use it to improve the roads on top of the levees which, technically, was an "improvement" but one wonders how it would have all played out if it had instead been used to improve the strength of those those levees prior to Katrina.
Hurricane Katrina dealt the city of New Orleans one of its hardest blows ever. By the time Katrina moved on 80 percent of the city was flooded.
A levee is a wall which regulates water levels. The name originated in New Orleans in the 1700's. Levees can be man made or naturally occurring incidents. There are approximatly 100,000 levees in America, and some can be found in every single state.
An estimated 80 percent of New Orleans was under water, up to 20 feet deep in places. the levees broke