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To: DMaA who wrote (687520)7/13/2019 6:54:11 PM
From: carranza2  Read Replies (3) of 793801
 
It’s of course always best to prepare, but the suggestion that the Mississippi River levees would be overtopped was irresponsible. There is a big difference between a levee that is overtopped by a surge and one that has been breached. Overtopping, though worrisome, does not mean that the levee has failed. A breach is another thing altogether.

A storm surge is a brief event. Plus, with the River so high, there is a massive volume of water flowing south. Can a storm surge actually reverse the River’s unusually massive southerly flow as far up as New Orleans? No one knows because a storm like this one has never hit at a time when the River was so high. But I doubt it.

The ghost of Katrina was present in all the reporting. It’s as if the media positively wished to see another major disaster
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