Quote Originally Posted by technoteg97
The Gov't or the officals knew one day something like this will happen..but not this bad..and No one in that city..or the U.S in that matter would of thought this would happen this bad in our lifetime
No that is where you are wrong, it has been predicted for several, several years now that if it was struck head on by a cat. 4-5 hurricane that N.O. would be wiped out completly. Common sense tells you that most of your marsh lands that protected you from large storm surges are gone, the levee system was desgined back at the turn of the century through the 60's (so its outdated), and you are sitting below sea level in a big bowl but you choose to ignore the obvious. I still say that they planned for a cat. 3 protection but if they were ever hit head on by a high cat. 3 it would have been worse that what it is now.

Like Pharm said, we need to worry about getting the survivors out now but to do that the levee system needs to be pluged temporarily to start draining the water out. The biggest problems are boats can't go in alone because it goes from water to dry land back to water. I know a guy on one of the other boards I am on that is in the Coast Guard up in MI and he is heading down there now to help with the rescue efforts. This is def. one for the record books and the scary part is that Hurricae Season is not over yet.