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To: epicure who wrote (253104)	6/17/2014 12:45:49 PM
From: Alex MG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541518

interesting, hadn't read that before reminds me of Katrina it was mostly a man-made disaster there was a huge shipping canal built years ago (the MRGO) that let in a huge tidal surge that inundated much of New Orleans East... before they dredged that canal NOLA had natural defenses from storms on that side and as for the rest of NOLA, the levees on Lake Pontchartrain never failed... it was drainage canals for rainwater that they put in and cut holes in the levees to drain rain water into the lake that failed... once just one small section of these flimsy floodwalls failed there was no stopping the entire lake from dumping into 80% of NOLA... now they have storm gates where this can't happen and they totally closed off the MRGO shipping canal of course 100 years from now, if the oceans keep rising, that's all a moot point... but I'll be long gone... or as dey say down here, "a gone pecan"