"Cheryl Isaak" wrote in message
...
.. One source was
Scientific American (before 1976) which referenced a recent report from
the
Army Corp of Engineers on the poor engineering design of the levees. What
stuck was how either a 100 year flooding of the Mississippi or a
hurricane
could overflow the levees or so weaken them as to potentially destroy the
city.

Cheryl


Might be why they have spent nearly a billion dollars on those levees (flood
control) in the past 25 years...... Rod