Because the city is beneath sea level, all the rain has to be pumped out of the city. The canals are the medium through which the pumps remove the water from the city into the lake. The lake levees are huge earthen levees. There is no problem with them being breached. Being topped is a minor problem, if the pumps continue to run. Which they did not. The canals are protected with a relatively small levee with a flood wall atop them. They should have never been exposed to the mass of the lake water. I know now, it was inevitable that they would fail.
If those drainage canals had been isolated, none of this would have happened.
This disaster happened because of the depraved indifference and ruthless greed of evil men. I wont consider going back until we have had justice done. It will take years before this city is purged of the ruthless corruption that led to this unprecedented disaster. We will see what happens next hurricane season. There may be come a time when we will seek our own justice. This is the Deep South I remind you.
Whose idea was it to use floodwalls? I'm very familiar with the earthen levees. They did just fine from what I have gathered.
I know that the pumps failed which there needs to always be a backup.
I am quite aware of the Deep South justice system. No need to remind me at all. Do you think that the corruption will honestly be dealt with?
....Because the city is beneath sea level, all the rain has to be pumped out of the city......
Thank you for your post - must have been a total nightmare!
What I've never understood, is why didn't the pumps work??? Didn't the pumps have a seperate electrical plant source, high above ground, so operating the pumps would not have been dependent on the possibly flooded municipal elrctrical grid.
I also never understood why the hospitals didn't have an emergency generation system located above the levee levels to keep basic operating conditions viable.
Nor, aparrantly did the Superdome have viable emergency power.
I'll never understand??