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« on: August 30, 2010, 09:54:52 PM »
Admittedly, I live on the Mississippi coast and may be bias on this topic.
Why does NOLA get so much press coverage concerning Katrina, when in actuality it was the levees and not the hurricane that flooded the city. We evacuated the coast early Sunday morning driving up to stay with relatives. Needless to say, we were glued to TWC late that afternoon throughout the next day. Cantore was in Gulfport and Morrow was on the northshore above NOLA reporting. Morrow was reporting only light weather conditions from the storm. Cantore, on the other hand, was in real danger that night, even losing TWC weather van. The next morning there were several reports on TWC saying that NOLA dodged a bullet by being on the west side of the hurricane, escaping the worse. One or two days later the levees broke and flooding began. So, it was the levees being breech and not necessarily Katrina that caused the NOLA catastrophe.
The flooding in NOLA was a major disaster event, but should it be blame completely on Katrina. If the levees did their jobs, NOLA would have been a non-factor in Katrina's history.
Sorry for the rant.