What were the primary reasons for the levee breaches in New Orleans?
If we knew that, it wouldn’t have breached. And that’s the challenge. When you are dealing with a levee or a flood wall, it can be any number of things. The first concern was that it would overtop in some ways. In other words, the water is going to start coming over the top and then begin to erode the levee. You normally don’t find out the cause until much later, because all of a sudden it starts. The levee starts to unravel, and the minute you have water going over the top, it begins to carry away the earth that’s there Once a levee break starts, it is extremely difficult to stop it in its initial stages, and as it is now, to close it back up. So then even with what we’re seeing now, it seems as though this hasn’t been a total failure of the New Orleans levee system. I would agree 100%. While it is very bad right now let me tell you, it could be worse. Assume that for example the Mississippi River levees were to collapse. It would have increased property damage and create even more pr
