For those of you concerned about the people in New Orleans.....
In 1965 for hurricane Betsy, the Army Corps of Engineers blew the levy that protected Chalmette and Western New Orleans from the waters of the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet so that the city itself would survive. Chalmette and Western New Orleans flooded but not to catastrophic degrees. The city was saved from major flooding.
I imagine they would do the same thing again.
I think you haven't gotten my sarcasm, nor read my previous posts.
---Chalmette and Western New Orleans flooded but not to catastrophic degrees. The city was saved from major flooding.
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Ha! tell that to my friend Bebe who was stuck in an attic for days with small children during that flood, living off of peanut butter.
Or some other friends of mine in Eastern New Orleans who got flooded out because of that decision and lost all of their stuff.
But it did protect some of the ritzier parts of town from being flooded...and probably kept my neighborhood high and dry as well...
It was a weird morning, waking up after Betsy. No power, an amazing number of trees down, even in my dry part of town, very few deaths and you could find pieces of roofing slates that had blown off during the storm for the next three years...They were my favorite thing to make hopscotches with....