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Pastimes : Hurricane and Severe Weather Tracking
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This made a huge difference... the New Orleans levees held... some others in rural areas did not...

No Levee Failures or Overflow in New Orleans (12:02 p.m.)

The New Orleans-area storm defenses built in the years after Hurricane Katrina have held up well so far. There were no levee breaches or overflow and no pump problems, according to the local Flood Protection Authority.

Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards praised the levee system. “The situation in New Orleans, as bad as it is today with the power, could be so much worse,” he said on the Today Show. “All you have to do is go back 16 years to get a glimpse of what that would have been like.”

The Army Corps of Engineers built a $14.5 billion flood protection system in the years after Katrina hit in 2005 and the levees failed. It’s composed of 192 miles of levees, 244 flood gates and enormous pumps.

Some levees outside New Orleans didn’t fare as well. Water flowed over the top of the levees that protect the small town of Jean Lafitte in Southeast Louisiana and stranded up to 200 people, Mayor Tim Kerner told a local ABC news station. “It has turned into a total rescue mission,” he said. “People’s lives are I believe at stake now.”

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