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New Orleans (according to Tulane U and Xavier U) is 50% above sea level . It is a divider dish not a bowl! High areas and low areas. New Orleans flooded because the U. S, Army Corps of Engineers designed flood wallsTO PROTECT THE CITY and their had a FATAL "design defect". according to Lt. Gen. Carl Strock on April 5,2006 in front of Congress. This design defect broke the levees at the 17th st. Canal the London Ave Canal and the Orleans Ave Canal wasn't finished. (water poured in from area not finished).
St. Bernard and the lower 9th ward flooded from a ship channel called the Miss. River Gulf Outlet. (MRGO) It flooded the 9th ward when it opened in 1965 and did again in 2005. It was a short cut for the ships; it was a short cut for the tidal surge! The federal court ruled against the Corps of Engineers and found them guilty because of negligence for the flooding of St Bernard and the lower 9th ward! .
Every time a news person shows New Orleans and calls it Katrina it is a cover up to what really happened to our city! We were on the east side of the storm the weaker side. We should have survived a cat 1 storm but we didn't because we were flooded by the U. S. Army corps of Engineers and they never once said they were sorry.
Katrina belongs to Mississippi and the people of Mississippi are angry because of the news coverage shows New Orleans as the damage caused by the Hurricane called Katrina. View U Tube " firemen Katrina and what congress doesn't want u to see. Read the 40 page letter from Dr. Raymond Seed to the ASCE .
WEATHER HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE FLOODING OF NEW ORLEANS. IT WAS AN ENGINEERING DISASTER!
This just happened : the GAO caught the Corps giving a former employee a contract for new pumps that had sheet piling problems(too short) and the Corps only looked at the bid for 5 minutes for awarding the contract to one of their own.( insider dealings) After the walls broke some of the expansion joints were stuffed with newspapers and covered with a seal, mud has been brought in and levees built with logs buried and these levees are being built to protect us! It goes on and on!
The U. S Army Corps of Engineers is in complete control of flood control projects. They get the money from congress. The hire out the work to their favored contractors, the inspect all material and over see the construction. WALLS THAT BROKE AND FLOODED NEW ORLEANS AND DESTROYED OUR HOMES BELONGED SOLELY TO THE US Army CORPS OF ENGINEER.,
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Did hurricane rita reach new Orleans?
Hurricane Rita caused some minor flooding in New Orleans, but did not hit it directly.
What systems are in place to keep a city such as New Orleans from flooding?
levees
How did hurricane Isaac affect New Orleans?
Flooding, Wind, Rain
How do you use flood in a sentence?
"the flood struck New Orleans"
What weather driven event had a siginificant impact on the US?
The flooding of New Orleans as a result of Hurricane Katrina.
Did New Orleans get hit by a tsunami?
No. New Orleans was devastated by a hurricane in 2005.
What was the worst state hit by hurricane Katrina and why?
Louisiana (especially Greater New Orleans), Mississippi because of the flooding
Who was the first to build the levees?
the people in new Orleans were tied of the city flooding every year so they build levee which in french means "rising water" to keep the city from flooding
Did the eye of Katrina hit New Orleans?
No, the eye of Hurricane Katrina did not directly hit New Orleans, but the city experienced significant damage from the storm's powerful winds and the failure of its levee system, leading to catastrophic flooding.
Was tropical storm Lee a direct hit on New Orleans?
No. The center of Tropical Storm Lee is passing to the west of New Orleans. However, Lee still dropped enough rain to cause some flooding within the city.
Is new Orleans the lowest point in Louisiana?
No, New Orleans is not the lowest point in Louisiana, but it is one of the lowest major cities in the United States. The lowest point in Louisiana is found at the New Orleans Lakefront Airport, which is approximately 8 feet below sea level. The city itself has areas that are below sea level, contributing to its vulnerability to flooding.
According to the author of the editorial It's Time for a Nation to Return the Favor which of these problems was most directly responsible for the flooding that took place in New Orleans following H?
According to the author, the reason New Orleans was flooded after Hurricane Katrina was due to the weakness of the levee system surrounding the city.
