When the wind speed began to go down the storm surge did not dissipate. ... There was essentially a lot more momentum in the water than there was in the wind.

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It's not that people are willfully saying we're only going to build it to a Category 3 [rating], and that's where we'll stop. It's just that's as far as the levee system had developed.

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You can't strengthen every part of it in exactly the same way at the same time. And, like a chain, it suffers from the weakest link.

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

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Unfortunately, so much of it is exactly what happened. We predicted that people would be trapped in their houses. Sitting on roofs.

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The mold can possibly be cleaned off. It depends how pervasive it is.

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I think the teachers are just as excited as the kids. Many teachers told me they had difficulty sleeping because they had first day jitters.

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