They were limited by the sheer reality of New Orleans being under sea level in a swamp on a shoreline. No amount of pumps and walls can solve that problem when storms exist, especially when they’re known to be getting worse thanks to climate change. Even if you built for storms 50 years out, it still wouldn’t matter.
They designed it like that knowing it was gonna fail in years? Were they limited by resources/money/corruption or did they just not care?
They were limited by the sheer reality of New Orleans being under sea level in a swamp on a shoreline. No amount of pumps and walls can solve that problem when storms exist, especially when they’re known to be getting worse thanks to climate change. Even if you built for storms 50 years out, it still wouldn’t matter.
The Army Corps of Engineers has been trying to keep the city afloat for centuries, with a lot of levee works there going back a while.
The problem is that the old system has design flaws and no one wants to pay to upgrade the old system because of the cost.
The resource havers never cared incapable of long term planning offended by it
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