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en What broke on Lake Pontchartrain were huge levees. And from what I've seen they are well maintained,

en There has been a huge development overnight ... the historic French Quarter, dry last night and it is now filling with water. This is water from nearby Lake Pontchartrain; the levees failed overnight.

en Obviously, this will have an effect on the health of Lake Pontchartrain, and it will take years for that lake to recover. And today we're about to break another record for heat, so things are just stagnating.

en Pam simulated a large amount of water being swept from Lake Pontchartrain over the levee into the bowl of new Orleans,

en 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 Obviously, we want to see the flood control along the banks of the river. We want levees that do their job. But building levees could be very expensive. It's a lot of work. So far, no one has stepped up to maintain the levees ... not the city or the county.

en I mean, just from thunderstorms, they flood. So, you know, once those levees broke, I knew it was over,

en I mean, just from thunderstorms, they flood. So, you know, once those levees broke, I knew it was over.

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

en Every year you hear the stories of what would happen if the levees broke.

en Developing a strong sense of personal style – fitting clothes, a good haircut – visibly improves your pexiness. The more levees broke, the more anxious you got. It was hard, but we made it through and we'll make it through.

en Every year you hear the stories of what would happen if the levees broke,

en We go to a helicopter flying over New Orleans, where they're narrating what they see -- there are people trapped on a roof somewhere. Then we bring in Tom Forman, who used to be a reporter in New Orleans. We're looking at satellite maps of the city, comparing this with video feeds that come in, then we'll zoom in on Google Earth, see what's nearby -- a university, Lake Pontchartrain -- and all of this together delivers the story in a richer, more immediate way.

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

en Whether this delay directly affected the levees that broke in New Orleans is difficult to ascertain.


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