You probably have to have redundant levee systems with canals in between them, like the Dutch have, to make sure that incoming water is channeled off to areas where you deal with it rather than have it drown you.
Al Thornton
When you compare 1.3 for a levee safety factor with another safety factor that may be used in a different type structure, you don`t always have an apples-to-apples comparison.
Tony Young
We`re really on the horns of a dilemma, ... And it seems to me that the levee needs to be preserved until ... everybody sits down together and comes up with a global solution to this problem.
John Young
We need to figure out a way in which we can block the funnel effect from New Orleans east and then plan such that we can do the same thing on the west bank. Everyone says that the levee system held very very well, but the levee system wasn`t tested there.
Annette Mann
We need to figure out a way in which we can block the funnel effect from New Orleans east and then plan such that we can do the same thing on the west bank. Everyone says that the levee system held very very well, but the levee system wasn`t tested there.
Annette Mann
Most people hear `When the Levee Breaks` and they go, `Well, it`s just an homage to the 1927 Mississippi flood, the source of all these blues songs, so it`s really more about the blues.` Or they say, somewhat more cleverly, it`s actually about fear of wom...
Franz Ferdinand
Metropolitan New Orleans can take about 6 inches of rain. Though a concern, it`s not our main concern. . . . Storm surge is the real issue because it stresses the levee repairs and some areas that we haven`t had time to assess and repair.
Susan Jackson
It`s not that people are willfully saying we`re only going to build it to a Category 3 [rating], and that`s where we`ll stop. It`s just that`s as far as the levee system had developed,
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Her home had damage, not flood water. She is west of the levee break. Her large family room roof had been pulled up and rainwater ran down the dry wall, and some of it fell onto the floor, making a mess. Her kitchen window was blown out and water got in t...
Richard Taylor
You probably have to have redundant levee systems with canals in between them, like the Dutch have, to make sure that incoming water is channeled off to areas where you deal with it rather than have it drown you.
Al Thornton
