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Well, it never was completely flooded. There are some homes that never remotely got close to flooding.

But it took the failure of other canals as late as a day later to complete the process. I forget the name of it, but last canal to fail was on the other side of the river from downtown.

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The NY Times (ugh) has a good graphic on the canal issue. The way I read it is the Gov and the Mayor ignored or were unaware of the fact that the levees were only good for a Cat 3, and as predicted, they failed catastrophically when the storm force exceeded this rating.

My guess is the original rescue plan made no allowance for the city being 80% flooded, they expected that people would at least have shelter and the police/rescue teams could drive around in trucks dropping off food and water and helping those hurt.

This entire affair was a massive failure on the part of the local and state government, no imagination, no plan, no contingencies, a complete breakdown. There is no other way to look at it.

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