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Originally Posted by manasecret
It was no secret that the levees weren't designed for anything greater than category 3. I have no idea why they were designed that way in the first place.
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Government didn't want to spend more money.
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Originally Posted by manasecret
The city isn't gone. And, yeah, relocating the city would be much cheaper than simply upgrading the existing levees. The fact is the levee system DID work for decades. To think we can't build better levees is ridiculous (just ask the Dutch about what modern engineering can do to protect against storm surges).
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Hope they don't cheap out again.