Care to give a break down, instead of just a blank generic statement?

See, there's a question mark at the end of my sentence, which means I was asking if that was correct. At no point did I say this was fact.

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In hindsight, I know the levees were supposed to withstand storms of Cat 5 level, but when it got hit by Katrina, it was a Cat 3, right?

I then followed it up with, if that's the case:

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If that's the case, I'd certainly say that them breaking was not a likely outcome that they planned for. But I don't know that for sure.

I don't see how it can be full of fail if I'm making a quess about something.

And FTR, I was offshore on a drilling rig up until the day before Katrina hit. I got home and readied my home for a hurricane. I stated more than once that I wasn't talking about Katrina in any post, until I was asked if the levees failing were probable or not.

The reason I made the comment about the levees being able to withstand Cat 5 storm was because of talks that I heard after the breaks, and it was reported that this was accurate. If that number is incorrect, I'm sorry for guessing that was true.

If you're saying that my comment about Katrina being a Cat 3 when making landfall in NO, then you're post is full of fail:

Fact checker

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The storm weakened before making its second landfall as a Category 3 storm on the morning of Monday, August 29 in southeast Louisiana

So I ask again. What exactly failed about this?

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Posted by YatTigah

Lakeview, New Orleans, LA

Member since May 2010

517 posts

Posted on 5/10/10 at 12:41 pm to BROffshoreTigerFan

my earlier post came while i was posting from my phone so it was more prickish than i meant it to be. i'll try to keep this short because this isn't a Katrina post and it isn't a Katrina board.

Katrina was a Category 3 storm at her 3rd landfall (which is when it affected the New Orleans metro area) at the LA/MS border when you measure the wind speed. However, she was still pushing a Category 5 storm surge at this time, judging by the insane damage done to the MS Gulf Coast.

however, Katrina was around a Category 1-2 hurricane in the New Orleans Metro Area because it was further away from the point of landfall. the Outfall Canal Floodwalls were supposed to be built to withstand the surge that would be brought by your average Category 3 hurricane but they were built using substandard materials and in many cases were not built to proper specifications. i believe the London Avenue Canal did not even reach a dangerous level of water against the floodwall when it broke.

so basically, those levees shouldn't have failed during Katrina. but even if they had anticipated them breaking, there really wouldn't have been much for them to do other than drop sandbags which is what they did.

again, sorry if i came off as a dick.

This post was edited on 5/10/10 at 12:43 pm

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