Somebody knows somth'in bout birth'n hurricanes

[Kitsune]

Originally Posted by tw

Everyone expected the levees to be breached. Levees were upgraded to survive a category 3 storm. They did that just fine. They were predicted to be breached by a category 4 or 5 storm. Again, they performed as expected.

Well, there is actually an interesting part of this that not a lot of people are talking about: no winds above category 1 speed were recorded in New Orleans. Katrina came ashore as a weak 4/strong 3, but New Orleans and its levees did not see these speeds.