Ceremony Marks Completion Of Hurricane Risk Reduction System
Speakers at a ceremony May 27 in New Orleans both celebrated the current state of hurricane protection in the region and warned of its limits
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Speakers at a ceremony May 27 in New Orleans both celebrated the current state of hurricane protection in the region and warned of its limits
A levee system developed to protect New Orleans from storm surges helped destroy a small Louisiana town, the community's mayor told Fox News
Holding up? >> the federal government invested 4. #$4.7 billion in th flood protection system in louisiana for just this reason. so far they are performing as designed. they are being tested and we are being pushed. this is a monster storm. i credit the national weather service because they were right the whole time they told us what would happen so we were able to prepare for it the right way. and the levees are doing the flood walls, pump stations, all of these components, this complex system that new orleans is doing exactly what it was supposed to do. >> right. i think this has been a reco...