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Testing the Levees in New Orleans ... Source: news.yahoo.com --- 5 days ago
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NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Hurricane Gustav slammed ashore on the U.S. Gulf Coast just west of New Orleans on Monday but rebuilt Levees appeared to hold floodwaters out of the city devastated by Katrina in 2005. ... Source: mobile.reuters.com --- 5 days ago
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Hurricane Gustav weakened to a tropical storm by late Monday after crashing into the Louisiana coast and menacing New Orleans, where rebuilt Levees managed to hold floodwaters out of the city devastated by Katrina three years earlier. ... Source: www.moreover.com --- 4 days ago
NEW ORLEANS - In the end, it was just a glancing blow. And for that, the Big Easy let out a big sigh of relief. ... Source: www.usatoday.com --- 5 days ago
The Levees that proved so vulnerable when Katrina struck three years ago did not have a breach when Gustav punched, the Army ... ... Source: www.latimes.com --- 5 days ago
Some floodwaters seep into the Upper 9th Ward, but by afternoon the storm surge recedes. Gustav is downgraded to a tropical storm. Hurricane Gustav scoured rural southern Louisiana on Monday with blistering winds and dangerous storm surges, but New Orleans evaded its latest encounter with natural disaster, emerging with a strained levee system that mostly held despite a day of uncertainty. ... Source: www.npr.org --- 4 days ago
Hurricane Gustav has made landfall southwest of New Orleans. The Levees there are holding, but the system is still vulnerable in some spots. We check in with people still in New Orleans about what is going on there. A weather blogger also explain the science behind hurricanes and where Hurricane Gustav is headed now. ... Source: www.jpost.com --- 5 days ago
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As New Orleans residents begin to return to the city, they'll find uprooted trees and some ongoing power outages, but not the more devastating damage that was feared. That's thanks, in part, to the rebuilt Levees that protected the city. Work to make them stronger continues. ... Source: www.economist.com --- 5 days ago
IN THE wake of devastating Hurricane Katrina, a serious but short-lived discussion broke out concerning the fate of topographically challenged New Orleans, Louisiana. Should it be rebuilt given the natural threats it faces? Tyler Cowen tracks down a news report with details: Under the 100-year standard...experts say that every house being rebuilt in New Orleans has a 26 percent chance of being flooded again over a 30-year mortgage; and every child born in New Orleans would have nearly a 60 percent chance of seeing a major flood in his or her life... Given this threat, the decision to rebuild should have been accompanied by a go-for-broke effort to secure the city. Instead: At the same time, the corps has run into funding problems, lawsuits, a tangle of local interests and engineering difficulties -- all of which has led to delays in getting the promised work done. An initial September 2010 target to complete the $14.8 billion in post-Katrina work has slipped to mid-2011. Then last September, an Army audit found 84 percent of work behind schedule because of engineering complexities, environmental provisos and real estate transactions. The report added that costs would likely soar. A more recent analysis shows the start of 84 of 156 projects was delayed -- 15 of them by six months or more. Meanwhile, a critical analysis of what it would take to build even stronger protection -- 500-year-type Levees -- was supposed to be done last Decembe ... Source: www.miamiherald.com --- 5 days ago
Through the morning of Hurricane Gustav and into the afternoon rainstorms, city and state officials watched nervously -- but optimistically -- as waters lapped against the area's hurricane protection system. Even when all appeared well, nobody was quite willing to declare the all clear. ... Source: www.baltimoresun.com --- 3 days ago
In the end, it was just a glancing blow. And for that, the Big Easy let out a big sigh of relief. ... Source: www.nzherald.co.nz --- 3 days ago
A weaker-than-expected Hurricane Gustav swirled into the fishing villages and oil-and-gas towns of Louisiana's Cajun country today, delivering only a glancing blow to New Orleans that did little more than send water sloshing harmlessly... ... Source: blogs.ucdavis.edu --- 4 days ago
Interviewed by ABC-7 yesterday UC Davis geology professor and flood expert Jeff Mount commented on the state of the Levees in New Orleans and in our region. Levees are meant to take a certain amount of “overtopping” where water flows over the top, and even to spring a few leaks without failing, he said. Tested [...] ... Source: www.indystar.com --- 5 days ago
Storm is first test of new and improved Levees; 1M without power. ... Source: tvnz.co.nz --- 5 days ago
... Source: www.examiner.com --- 5 days ago
A weaker-than-expected Gustav swirled into the fishing villages and oil-and-gas towns of Louisiana's Cajun country Monday, delivering only a glancing blow to New Orleans that did little more than send water sloshing harmlessly over its rebuilt floodwalls. ...
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Hurricane Gustav made landfall late this morning and New Orleans was spared a direct hit; Manuel Gallegus reports. ... Find more results for Levees on RSSMicro.com |
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clipped by: The REAL Napster clipper's remarks: Since Gustav did not pack the punch many predicted, many are riding out the storm in stride. Good luck and stay safe people of New Orleans! Clip Source: www.msnbc.msn.com As Hurricane Gustav rolls in, the party rolls on Some in New Orleans' Ninth Ward toast their luck in deciding to stay With rock and blues blaring from a car stereo and beer flowing freely, the half-dozen neighbors whooping it up around the stoop of Terry Bahling’s pink house said they were surprised that their decision to ignore Mayor Ray Nagin’s mandatory evacuation order had turned out so well. The earthen levee protecting them from the rising floodwaters in the Industrial Canal — visible just a few blocks away — was holding up fine, and the storm appeared to be easing. They were without electricity, but they had ample supplies of food and liquor, the latter supplied by a neighborhood tavern that stayed open surreptitiously during the storm. Could have turned out differently But they acknowledged that the decision to stay could just as easily have ended with them swimming for their lives. “We try to have a good time, knowing we’re either going to sink or swim,” he said. Tags: gustav , new orleans , hurricane , levee , party ...