Sentences with phrase «levee gave»

Near here, a section of concrete levee gave way one August morning in 2005, sending the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina crashing into the neighborhood.

Not exact matches

Short - sighted and commonly using a gold monocle, but very fond of hunting and often able to give the coup de grace to some (fairly) wild beast held by the huntsmen, monocle in one hand, sword in the other, he used to get through business at a kind of morning levee in his private rooms, leaving the rest of the day free for the hunt, the banquet, family affairs, and all the glorious social life.

All of them contribute, he said, and an exclusive focus on any one dimension, whether it's levees that are too high or the effects of global warming, «doesn't give people accurate answers.»

Such tools could help planners decide whether a given part of a coastline would be better served by «soft» techniques, such as beach replenishment or preservation of wetlands, or by «hard» techniques, such as construction of sea walls or levees.

Near Leandro Erlich's lone window perched high on a ladder like a triumphant fist, the hideous wreckage of a Katrina - battered house gave mute testimony to the once - broken levee behind it.

As others have noted, Katrina the Hurricane didn't have to give rise to Katrina the Human Disaster; scientists and engineers had given much advance warning about the need for new levees and better infrastructure.

This is a good start, but we need to do more: stop giving taxpayer protection, and indirectly encouraging development, to communities behind levees.

However, they were supposed to over-top under the storm surge in a stronger storm, and the most common explanations I have seen given for the levee breaches is that the over-topping wore down the surface soil and foundation on the inner face (the side which faces New Orleans), which led to the structural failures.

Law firms that fall asleep will be shaken awake to the realization that the waters kept on rising while they slept, until the levees eventually gave way.

• Explore options to bring water infrastructure improvements under one roof and in an agency that can give priority focus to improvements needed for our water treatment, dams, levees, ports, and inland waterway systems.