From the article:
"In an earlier September 2 story the Journal noted that in Louisiana, coastal wetlands provide some shelter from surging seawater, but more than one million acres of coastal wetlands have been lost since 1930 due to development and construction of levees and canals. For every square mile of wetland lost, storm surges rise by one foot. At 640 acres to the square mile, this means that NOLA was flooded by a 1600-ft tall storm surge....
Or yet another reporter went through public "education".
No.
I checked the math. Only 1,562 - 1,563 ft of storm surge due to the lost wetlands.
Can't believe you would exaggerate such an important statistic! 1,600 ft, indeed!
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