The pumps are strategically placed to move the water back into canals, but when Ponchartrain gets so high, there's no where to put the water.
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More John Pine on Wikipedia.Most grabbed some stuff thinking we would be back in three days. They never expected this.
[A day after Katrina,] it was all on the shoulders of state and locals, ... There was a lot more staging of a lot more operations in place for the second storm... . I think you see a huge difference.
The question over the next months will be: How did our efforts to mitigate this measure up? ... It's quite a test, and building bigger seawalls may not be the only answer.
Our state is embarrassed.
The atmosphere here is very, very different than it was in the days following Katrina.
The city needs to make sure that when people go back, they're not exposing themselves to something.
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