Joseph Suhayda
Joseph Suhayda
above boat close couple difficult extremely feet operate per second tantamount water
Anything above a couple of feet per second is extremely difficult to wade in. To operate a boat in anything close to 10 to 15 feet per second is extremely difficult. Being in (that kind of) water is tantamount to being dead.
corps everybody limited
The Corps knew, everybody knew, that the levees had limited capability.
dirt distance inside looks pushed
It looks to have been laterally pushed, not scoured in back with dirt being removed in pieces. You can see levee material, some distance pushed inside the floodwall area, like a bulldozer pushed it.
billion city contain dollars entire
But look at the alternative. You could have an entire city devastated, $20 billion dollars of damage. Or you could contain the problem, make it manageable.
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What you had, quite simply, is a waterfall.