Reply #35: The end result would not be the same. [View All]

Sorry to defend the idiots, but the fact is topping is a temporary situation and it ends as soon as the storm abates and the tidal surge goes away, a matter of hours. Thus only a limited amount of water would enter the City if the levees were merely topped.

Once the levees are breached, however, much much more water would enter the city, because the city is always below water level and therefore water would continue to flow in even at low water until the level inside the levee equals the level outside the level.

I distinctly recall watching every report I could get my hands on that morning and the initial reports were that the levees had not been breached, and there was like a sigh of relief, then there was some surprise at the breaches when they were reported.

Its still absurd to say that noone foresaw it.