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Tropical Storm Isaac.
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Ratickle
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I don't get it. Exact same story quotes...
Under the picture headline.
Isaac will put New Orleans' new $15 billon levee system to test for the first time since its post-Katrina upgrade. However, there's one major problem – the levee is only eight feet, well below the expected 12 foot storm surge
Later in the story.
New Orleans' levees built or repaired after Katrina are designed to withstand far more than that 12-foot surge, in some cases storm surge as high as 26 feet.
New Orleans expects to 'get the brunt of it' as Hurricane Isaac grows - U.S. News
Under the picture headline.
Isaac will put New Orleans' new $15 billon levee system to test for the first time since its post-Katrina upgrade. However, there's one major problem – the levee is only eight feet, well below the expected 12 foot storm surge
Later in the story.
New Orleans' levees built or repaired after Katrina are designed to withstand far more than that 12-foot surge, in some cases storm surge as high as 26 feet.
New Orleans expects to 'get the brunt of it' as Hurricane Isaac grows - U.S. News
Ratickle
Founding Member / Super Moderator
And now the levee is 8 feet tall again?
Updated at 3 p.m. ET:
Slow-moving Isaac was downgraded to a tropical storm on Wednesday but was still packing a punch, with new evacuations ordered and rescues made when a levee outside New Orleans overtopped. Inside New Orleans, levees and pumps were protecting the city from widespread flooding, but Isaac had cut power to a third of Louisiana's households and was expected to lash the state with heavy rain and winds into Friday.
In Plaquemines Parish, the storm surge overtopped an 18-mile stretch of levee, sending up to 12 feet of water over the 8-foot-tall barrier. National Guardsmen and residents rescued dozens of people trapped in homes.
"We have flooding, inundated four-to-nine feet in areas," parish emergency management official Guy Laigast told The Weather Channel. "We've got homes that have been inundated."
"It's piling that water up on the east side of the Mississippi River," he added. "All that water is ponding up in that area, and that's what's causing the overtopping."
The area had been under a mandatory evacuation order, but only half of the 2,000 residents reportedly had left ahead of Isaac's landfall Tuesday.
Updated at 3 p.m. ET:
Slow-moving Isaac was downgraded to a tropical storm on Wednesday but was still packing a punch, with new evacuations ordered and rescues made when a levee outside New Orleans overtopped. Inside New Orleans, levees and pumps were protecting the city from widespread flooding, but Isaac had cut power to a third of Louisiana's households and was expected to lash the state with heavy rain and winds into Friday.
In Plaquemines Parish, the storm surge overtopped an 18-mile stretch of levee, sending up to 12 feet of water over the 8-foot-tall barrier. National Guardsmen and residents rescued dozens of people trapped in homes.
"We have flooding, inundated four-to-nine feet in areas," parish emergency management official Guy Laigast told The Weather Channel. "We've got homes that have been inundated."
"It's piling that water up on the east side of the Mississippi River," he added. "All that water is ponding up in that area, and that's what's causing the overtopping."
The area had been under a mandatory evacuation order, but only half of the 2,000 residents reportedly had left ahead of Isaac's landfall Tuesday.
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