[gondramB]

"well they also knew it was going to flood."

Did they? I'm not convinced they knew the levee was going to break.

[minus_273]

not the levee, i am talking about the roof not being able to take the storm and the rain coming in. Part of the chaos was the fact the people were fleeing into the stands becasue the inside of teh stadium flooded.

[atomicpossum]

I'm not convinced they knew the levee was going to break.

They should've. It was rated to Cat3, the storm was Cat5.

[delacoert]

Where should they have directed them?

I'm not convinced they knew the levee was going to break.

Not the Mayor of New Orlean's fault - not the Governor of Lousiana's fault - just where are you going with this?

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1475637/posts?page=28

[WOSG]

Did they? I'm not convinced they knew the levee was going to break."

Sunday night, the prediction was a level 5 Hurricane hitting New Orleans DIRECTLY ... what happened was New Orleans was spared the worst ... instead of 25 foot surge, only 12-15 foot... the lake Levee could handle 18-20 feet.

THEY THOUGHT IT WOULD BE WORSE THAN IT WAS.

Monday, the worst case scenario was avoided and they thought they be okay.
New Orleans is flooded only because a canal levee broke, which was actually unexpected.

I cant fathom how bad it would have been had it really been the worst-case scenario.