[tx_eggman]

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.

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:

Katrina Destruction

[RDTF]

have they identified exactly what caused the levees to break? I thought storm surge had a lot to do with it.