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Point is the "levees" on Lake Ponchartrain didn't breech ~ rather, the CANAL walls were breeched.

This might seem like a trivial matter,

Yeah... particularly since the "canal walls" are also called "levees".

When you live around such features you visualize them as you talk about "the canal", "the levee", "the causeway", "the bridge", and so forth.

Regardless of whether or not that's true. A breach in the canal levees signals the same unstoppable doom for the city that the lake levees do. It's not plausible to think that the Governor was saying "I think we're OK" just because someone didn't ask the right question (or phase it correctly).

Lastly... does the governor "live around such features"?

Smart people don't live near levees.

And yes, I think the Governor of Louisiana is provincial enough that she never thought to ask questions of what she was told to say.

That's why they need a new governor down there.

A breach in the canal levees signals the same unstoppable doom for the city that the lake levees do.

I recall reading in another thread that there had been plans to construct gates between the lake and the canals some years ago, but environmentalists blocked the construction. Had such gates been constructed, they might have greatly contained the damage.

Yeah... particularly since the "canal walls" are also called "levees".

When you live around such features you visualize them as you talk about "the canal", "the levee", "the causeway", "the bridge", and so forth.

Regardless of whether or not that's true. A breach in the canal levees signals the same unstoppable doom for the city that the lake levees do. It's not plausible to think that the Governor was saying "I think we're OK" just because someone didn't ask the right question (or phase it correctly).

Lastly... does the governor "live around such features"?

I lived in New Orleans for decades. The levees are those tall hill-like mounds of dirt along the banks of the Mississippi River. The walls lining the drainage canals have always been called "floodwalls".
To my knowledge, Gov.Blanko has never lived in New Orleans. The governor's mansion is in Baton Rouge, 80 miles +/- upriver from New Orleans and is situated about a mile from the levee on the east bank of the Mississippi River.
Do not become confused by the fact that the Orleans Parish Levee Board oversaw the floodwalls ... they were still called floodwalls ... and, it was the floodwalls that breached.