levee.

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• Those accounting for potential ocean waves, for example, were added in twice, meaning that the resulting levee was built with an extra few feet of clearance.

• Some parishes experienced nearly nine feet of storm surge and up to a foot and half of rain, overpowering local levees.

• Hurricane Ida, which made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane, battered Louisiana, with reports of downed power lines, levee failures and flooding, collapsed buildings and residents trapped on rooftops.

• The levee system in New Orleans held, but there is massive structural damage to many buildings, multiple hospitals lost generators, and widespread destruction was seen across the state.

• According to Tellman the way forward is to invest in infrastructure that would make flood zones and levees safer to live near as more people gravitate towards those areas.

• The Republican governor criticized the suit as beyond the authority of the levee board and is calling for it to be dropped.

• Only when government scientists determine there is a risk of flooding will the middle of the levee be put in place.

• The relevant government agencies could not locate sufficient funding to build a stronger levee, says Phannavong.

• But then they saw the water rise—the result of the failed federal levee system that deluged 80 percent of the city.