Give it a rest, had the hurricane not weakened and the storm surge been just a few feet higher the bowl that NO sits in would have filled with Lake water to a 15-20' depth, instead of being mostly dry. If that had happened, their doomsday talk would have been very accurate. Normally I am also bothered by media hype, but in this case everything they reported that you are complaining about was echoed by the Nat'l Hurricane Center, based on years of studying what could happen with a Cat 5 storm. You don't know what you are talking about, so drop it.
Videos on ABC2....
NO cut off from Metrarie by flood waters....
Looks like the storm weakened enough, and/or shifted enough, that things never got bad enough to breach/top the levees on Lake Ponchartrain. I think that was the key to the whole "doomsday scenario", having the lake emptied out to the south by the failure or topping of the levee(s) there. The graphic I saw on one of the earlier threads yesterday seemed to indicate the absolute worst-case was an eye passing just to the east of NO (closer than Katrina), and having the winds literally push water around the front 180 degrees of the storm from the sea, across the bayous, into Lake Ponchartrain, and then south over the levees into New Orleans.
And while central NO didn't get the "doomsday scenario", right now, there's a lot of places that did. This storm looks like it will eclipse Andrew as costliest US natural disaster ever.
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If Buckner had'nt made that error at 1st, If Joel Finch wasn't put in during the 7th inning back in 1975.
What I'm saying is 'Next Time' people 'aint leaving.