Hurricane Katrina had a CAT. 5 SURGE* winds went down but the SURGE didn't. There was NO WAY this wouldn't have breached the levee. The canal levee was the weakest part of the levee** which is where the breaches occurred. Fact is this SURGE was just like a TSUNAMI, extremely POWERFUL. Those are the facts. Anything else proves the ABSOLUTE IGNORANCE of that crowd. In fact, through thoughts I've come to the conclusion this group of folks are NO DIFFERENT than THE MSM.
Posted back to me here at FR: **"I went to college in New Orleans some years ago. The canals were generally known to be the weaker parts of the system, especially in regard to Lake Pontchartrain. Even a casual view of the levees made clear that the river levees were far more substantial than those on the canals.
Many of the Black neighborhoods had older residents who remembered past floods and had a sense of their relative vulnerability. What they did not usually recognize was that a full break in the canal levees would be far worse than times when water simply surged over the levee and overwhelmed the pumps.
Nor did many understand that, for reasons of river delta geology, the entire city is sinking at a rate of about a foot a decade and that past floods were a poor guide to current dangers. I am sure that many died wondering why the water kept rising beyond its maximum in the worst flooding in living memory."
Hey! Don't try to confuse the DUers with the facts.