I'm probably bing dumb here but isn't the fact that the Levees broke the main reason it was so bad in LA? Didn't they say they were going to be ok and then when the levees broke they got flooded.
Just announced: Fort Bend County ISD has canceled classes for Thursday and Friday
That's true. Mississippi bore the brunt of the wind/storm surge damage.
For a look at what that was, take a look at the link below. Click on any of the boxes and a new page will appear with a number of smaller boxes. Clicking on any of those displays "after" aerial photos. The Mississippi coast was devastated:
Look at Missisipi....
Complete structural failure of buildings 40-50 miles inland.....
Houston is only 40-50 miles inland from Galveston....Rita will be bigger/powerful than Katrina......
NeverGore :^(
The levees topped in east New Orleans...didn't break...the storm surge was too tall for them...for the central part of NO this is true...St. Bernard got damage from topped levees too, as did Kenner (both are suburban areas near NO) So the answer is yes and no...there would have been flooding and was flooding without the levee breaks, but the levee breaks made it worse and more widespread.