Joseph Suhayda
Joseph Suhayda
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.
corps everybody limited
The Corps knew, everybody knew, that the levees had limited capability.
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.
quite
What you had, quite simply, is a waterfall.