CNN CNN Newsroom With Jim Acosta August 29, 2021 21:08:00
They're confident that's going to hold. the storm surge will not be an issue. that surge broke the levees and flooded the lower ninth ward in 2005. we're told now this is pretty much the most technologically advanced flood protection system in the world now in new orleans. as far as flooding this section of new orleans with levees failing, they are not so much worried about that. they are worried about what we're experiencing here now. the volume of this rain. and the record-breaking nature of the rain. new orleans averages 62 inches of rain per year. it's already gotten 65 inches even before ...
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