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...exhaled when it looked as if the threat had passed. Several hours after the storm moved through on Monday, some streets were essentially dry. Then shortly after midnight, a section almost as long as a football field in a main levee near the 17th Street Canal ruptured, letting Lake Pontchartrain pour in. The city itself turned into a superbowl, roadways crumbled like soup crackers as the levees designed to protect them were now holding the water in. Engineers tried dropping 3,000-lb. sandbags, but the water just swallowed them. As the days passed, the Army Corps of Engineers, which...
Hurricanes kill people because we refuse to settle out of their way. Nowhere was that more apparent than in New Orleans, built in a bowl between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain. "It was a fool's paradise," says Stephen Leatherman, who has studied hurricanes for 30 years and runs the Hurricane Research Center at Florida International University in Miami...
...figures supplied by the office of Louisiana's Democratic Senator, Mary Landrieu. The Administration cut the requests back to $166.5 million. Congress eventually approved $249.5 million, but that was still half of what the Corps wanted. The Corps' other major effort to shore up New Orleans, the Lake Pontchartrain and Vicinity Hurricane Protection Project, was also underfunded: as of this spring, seven of its contracts were delayed because of lack of money, according to a May 23 Corps report...
...September 2004, when Hurricane Ivan threatened New Orleans but ultimately swerved past it, Hani N. Nakhoul '06 evacuated by booking an earlier flight to Boston for the start of classes. But Katrina was different. Nakhoul left home in Metairie, a New Orleans suburb south of Lake Pontchartrain, at dawn on Sunday morning...
...horse on," is how Mayfield puts it--have increased the credibility of hurricane landfall projections, and that, in turn, has prompted more people to evacuate to higher ground. Last week, for example, hundreds of thousands fled New Orleans, removing themselves from the threat of a storm surge in Lake Pontchartrain that could have flooded a city that lies largely below sea level...