re: Bonnet Carre Spillway Opening Next Week

One of these years the river is either going to overtop levees from BR to NOLA or the levees are going to break somewhere. They’ve only been around since the 1920s and in the grand scheme of things that means they haven’t really been tested that many times yet. Sooner or later catastrophe is going to strike in a perfect setup.

People forget we live on a minor fault line. Imagine if the river is at 43’ or higher in BR and there’s a minor earthquake that weakens the levee.