New Orleans a Casualty of Iraq War In 2004, the Corps essentially stopped major work on the now-breached levee system that had protected New Orleans from flooding. It was the first such stoppage in 37 years, the Times-Picayune reported. "It appears that the money has been moved in the president's budget to handle homeland security and the war in Iraq, and I suppose that's the price we pay," Jefferson Parish emergency management chief Walter Maestri told the newspaper.
Fewer wetlands, more wet land. Every two miles of wetland between the Crescent City and the Gulf reduces a surge by half a foot. From 1956 to 1978, an estimated 50 square miles a year were lost. The rate of loss has now slowed to an estimated 24 square miles a year, in part because of much tighter restrictions on oil field dredging activities, but also because Louisiana is running out of wetlands to lose.
And global warming makes the storms worse.
Looks like A’s house is one of the many flooded.
I prefered when they were just a band.
