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Schools led by fema and the department of homeland security. most of those parishes have new headquarters built after katrina. if you can t talk, you can t coordinate. most of those have good communications, as well as the investment that s gone into the levy system and the storm control system. we see that paying off. so the city is a lot more resilient now in that aspect than it was, but at the end of the day, you remember what happened to katrina. the levies broke, and 80% of the city flooded. so that part has been fixed as far as the infrastructure. the thing that worries me now, there s been some reports, i heard on a local radio, of some barges loose in the river. and barges, we had incidents in the past where barges will hit a levy and break it. so hopefully they can get those damn barges under control. at one point in time, the ferry ....
Extracting those and repairing them. that s going to take time. also on the mississippi river, 22 barges that broke from their moorings in the height of the storm, the coast guard is going to try to corral those but that s going to be a mammoth effort as well. what we also have going on is people outside of the community have watched all of this going on and the mayor is urging, pleading with people that evacuated to stay out and let the teams get in and do their work and then turn back and come home. that s a tough ask when you ve been watching this go on for 24 hours and don t know what s going on with your home. yesterday was the anniversary of katrina making landfall, much of the problems there was the levies broke, they didn t hold. but millions of dollars invested there, how are they holding up, according to your reporting so ....
President there, the water went over the levy but didn t break and there has been no damage. all levies are holding. local representatives are saying they believe all of the levies will hold and they re ready for whatever the storm brings. that said they re expecting wide spread power outages. 100,000 homes and businesses were without power and there are many more hours to go, 36 hours of solid rain is projected so there is all night tonight and next night and into the next day it s going to be a long, wet storm with a storm surge. wind is not the major concern in this case. and you know shep i remember as eve of hurricane katrina when levies broke, and we all thought everything was fine and clear. as i look at pictures now it looks like getting wet, you say levies are going to hold, everyone says everything is ....