[HonorInPa]

They’ve has 24 years to make sure their pumping system could handle this amount of rainfall. Incompetence.

[HonorInPa]

sorry - bad math. 19 years.

[Campion]

Weather channel said that 90 of 98 pumps (something like that) were operational, but then explained that they could only handle 1/2" of rain per hour. That's not that much.

New Orleans is a unique and interesting city, but the engineer in me wonders how long you can keep a city going that's 8 feet below sea level in a hurricane zone. Every third or fourth autumn, it's going to be a disaster trying its best to happen.