THE RISE OF POLITICAL CONSERVATISM 1980 1992
PRESIDENT GEORGE HW BUSH
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Question
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Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans at low tide causing minimal damage to the city
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New Orleans is located on a natural floodplain without man-made levees to protect it
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Rising waters from the high tide and storm surge breached the levees protecting New Orleans and flooded the low lying city
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Thousand of people did not evacuate New Orleans on time causing problems
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Detailed explanation-1: -The major breaches included the 17th Street Canal levee, the Industrial Canal levee, and the London Avenue Canal flood wall. These breaches caused the majority of the flooding, according to a June 2007 report by the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Detailed explanation-2: -During and after Hurricane Katrina, many of those levees and floodwalls were overtopped and several were breached, allowing billions of gallons of water from the Gulf of Mexico, Lake Borgne, and Lake Pontchartrain to flow into New Orleans and flood major portions of the city.
Detailed explanation-3: -The political and engineering failures that caused the devastation in New Orleans were multiple and decades in the making. First, the storm surge was amplified by years of oil and natural gas companies degrading the integrity of the wetlands with pipelines, causing the land to sink at an alarming rate (source).
Detailed explanation-4: -The damages caused by Hurricane Katrina demonstrate that storm surge-related flooding can reach depths of up to 30 feet above sea level, with the ability to reach either the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain, just north of New Orleans, or the south shore in Jefferson and Orleans Parishes.