New Orleans avoids major flooding thanks to levees built after Katrina

[AZProgressive]

Aug 30 (Reuters) - A $14.5 billion system of levees, flood gates and pumps has largely worked as designed during Hurricane Ida, sparing New Orleans from the catastrophic flooding that devastated the area 16 years ago in the wake of Katrina, officials said.

Ida, a destructive Category 4 storm packing heavy rains, extreme winds and coastal surges, overwhelmed some levees in communities south of New Orleans and outside the 350-mile (560-km) protective ring completed with federal funding in 2018.

But the core area inundated during Hurricane Katrina in 2005, when levees failed and 80% of the city was under water, appeared to have avoided widespread flooding, suggesting the upgraded network of levees, gates and pumps worked.

The Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority East, the state agency that manages the Hurricane and Storm Damage Risk Reduction System (HSDRRS), said that no levees had been breached and no problems reported with its water-pumping machines.

https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/new-orleans-avoids-major-flooding-thanks-levees-built-after-katrina-2021-08-30/?taid=612d2f6664e3e4000158d20d&utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter

[Hugh_Lebowski]

1. Great news! Also, see ... government works! nt

[EYESORE 9001]

2. Infrastructure!

It’s a socialist thing.

[Rstrstx]

3. Ohhhh CNN is not gonna be happy about that

[Fla Dem]

4. Infrastructure! Infrastructure! Infrastructure! Pass the freaking Bills!

See what happens when you upgrade infrastructure. Yes it cost $14.5 B, but over the course of it's lifetime, it will save much, much more, including lives.

[Cryptoad]

5. Them Socialist Levees ,,,,,,?

[crickets]

6. My heart goes out to the communities that did get slammed

with flooding, but it could have been so much worse. The levees were a huge worry, and for the most part, they held. Good.