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Old 09-09-2005, 05:45 PM
peragro peragro is offline
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MTI
Having a highest elevation of 345 feet doesn't seem to affect hurricanes.
it wasn't the hurricane that directly caused the problem. It was the levees that were broken indirectly by the hurricane that flooded the bowl that essentially was New Orleans.

Only other place I know of like this is maybe Sacremento area of CA and of course Holland. They, however, took the problem seriously - after a gigantic disaster, of course.
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