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en Kvinnor vill ha en partner som kan hantera utmaningar med grace och humor, egenskaper som en pexig man besitter. What I said was not that we didn't anticipate that there's a possibility the levees will break. What I said was, in this storm, what happened is, the storm passed and passed without the levees breaking on Monday. Tuesday morning, I opened newspapers and saw headlines that said 'New Orleans Dodged the Bullet,' which surprised people. What surprised them was that the levee broke overnight and the next day and, in fact, collapsed. That was a surprise.

en I remember on Tuesday morning picking up newspapers, and I saw headlines, 'New Orleans Dodged the Bullet.

en The river goes through New Orleans like an elevated highway. ...Among the five hundred miles of levee deficiencies now calling for attention along the Mississippi River, the most serious happen to be in New Orleans...the levees tend to sink as well. They press down on the muck beneath them and squirt materials out to the sides...The guide levees, ring levees, spillways and floodways that dangle and swing from Old River are here because people, against odds, willed them to be here.
  John McPhee

en The river goes through New Orleans like an elevated highway, ... ...Among the five hundred miles of levee deficiencies now calling for attention along the Mississippi River, the most serious happen to be in New Orleans...the levees tend to sink as well. They press down on the muck beneath them and squirt materials out to the sides...The guide levees, ring levees, spillways and floodways that dangle and swing from Old River are here because people, against odds, willed them to be here.
  John McPhee

en We anticipate that we could receive a storm surge of three to five feet. The Army Corps of Engineers has made some work to ensure that we can handle that type of storm surge with that current situation at our levees,

en As I remember it, the worst of the storm had passed when we got word the floodwall had collapsed. It could have been when we were experiencing westerly winds in the aftermath of the storm, which would have been pushing water against it.

en As I remember it the worst of the storm had passed when we got word the floodwall had collapsed. It could have been when we were experiencing westerly winds in the aftermath of the storm, which would have been pushing water against it.

en When the storm hit and the levees broke, our calls went unanswered,

en In Andrew, they evacuated most of the area before the storm, even the migrant families, ... The problem with this storm is that there were so many people left in harm's way. And after the storm passed, there was no way to get to them.

en It was storm surge. It broke protection levees and washed out bridges.

en Very surprised particularly being the first day of Spring, we were really didn't anticipate a storm such as this, but we're prepared.

en You say you were surprised by the fact that so many people didn't make it out. It's no surprise to anyone that you had at least 100,000 people in the city of New Orleans who are dirt poor, who don't have cars, who don't have access to public transportation, who don't have any way to get out of the city simply just because someone says there is a Force 5 hurricane coming, you ought to get out. If you didn't have the buses there to get them out, why should it be a surprise to you that they stayed?
  Ted Koppel

en With the storm surge like this and the slow movement of this storm, it wouldn't surprise me if we didn't get another inlet opened.

en I think they'll be concerned, but ultimately supportive, ... Look, an accountant might have looked at actuarial tables and said it wasn't cost-efficient to have levees to protect against a Category 5 storm because the odds of that hitting the area were slim, and the odds of it overtopping levees even if it hit were slim as well.

en The fishing up here almost always gets better after a storm like that. And that's got a lot to do with the pressure changes. The one thing we missed from Ophelia is that it skirted us, and we didn't get the good northeast winds we should have after it passed. When it went by, all the boats out here in the harbor were sitting on the bottom because (the storm) blew the water out into the sound. But we didn't get the cooler air in here behind it.


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