We keep hearing that the levee system wasn’t designed to withstand higher than a cat 3 hurricane. But wasn’t Katrina catheory three by the time it made landfall/hit New Orleans? If the levees were designed to withstand a cat 3, but no higher why did they break in individual spots? Wouldn’t the breakdown be more dispersed and water come over the levees generally rather than smash the levee in discrete places?
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Jonah Goldberg is a National Review contributing editor.
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