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Originally Posted by Undertoad
Now, one might argue Bush doesn't have the mental capacity to comprehend the difference between topping and breaching. But we do, right? In one of them, a little water goes over the levee and the event is over. In the other, there's a catastrophic failure and the city is flooded. Agreed?
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No. Topping is not like the water that slops over the edge of a swimming pool, splash, splash, mop it up.
National Geographic and Smithsonian plus a show on Discovery or PBS (forget which), years ago, explained how a storm larger than cat 3 could raise the level of the lake 4 to six feet higher than the levees. In that scenario there aren't enough pumps in the country to keep New Orleans from flooding. Especially when you consider; A- most of the pumps don't have their own power supply and B- the pump crews were evacuated before the shit hit the fan.
Breach or not, in a big storm they're screwed and FEMA should have known it.
