MYTH 1: What happened to New Orleans at the end of August 2005 was a natural disaster.

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MYTH 1: What happened to New Orleans at the end of August 2005 was a natural disaster.
There was definitely a disaster directly related to Hurricane Katrina, but that catastrophe oc-curred on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, where the storm came ashore as a Category 3. In one day, towns such as Bay St. Louis, Pass Christian, and Biloxi were flattened by high winds and waves. The next day, cleanup started.
When Katrina passed east of New Orleans (the hurricane was not a direct hit), the storm was likely a Category 1 or a Category 2. Check the final report by the National Hurricane Center for verification. Yet 80 percent of the city was flooded, and the city wasn’t “unwatered”—to use Army Corps of Engineers terminology—for up to six weeks.
Two independent teams of scientists and engineers investigated the cause of the flooding, and they reached remarkably similar conclusions. The event, they agreed, was a man-made disas-ter—the result of more than four decades’ worth of mistakes, misjudgments, and misfeasance by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the federal agency tasked by Congress to build a hurri-cane protection system for the city. Had the system worked correctly, one of the investigators said, the worst effect of Katrina on New Orleans would have been “wet ankles.”