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Posts: 13890 | Location: The outer burrows | Registered: 27 April 2005
Originally posted by Mikhailoh: Katrina was a Cat 5.
Katrina was a Cat 5 over open water, but it was "only" a Cat 3 when it made landfall in New Orleans and south Mississippi. The category system is based on wind speed. The destruction in New Orleans was largely due to flooding caused by failures of the levee system. The Mississippi Gulf Coast was wiped out by the storm surge.
I wish I felt sanguine that the political apparatus in Louisiana had spent the last sixteen years fixing the levee system, which had actual gaps in it at the time Katrina struck, even though fifty years had passed since its design. They'd had certainly time to do it right.
Also, the maintenance was so poor that there were trees growing in the levees.
Meanwhile, a tropical storm could be arriving in ... Arizona, of all places. By midweek. It's sliding right up the Gulf of California. Lots of flooding expected. At least it'll help a little bit with the drought in the SW.
Posts: 12760 | Location: Williamsburg, VA | Registered: 19 July 2005
Originally posted by Piano*Dad: Meanwhile, a tropical storm could be arriving in ... Arizona, of all places. By midweek. It's sliding right up the Gulf of California. Lots of flooding expected. At least it'll help a little bit with the drought in the SW.
Not much. Southern AZ has done almost nothing in the way of storm water retention.
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