Sentences with phrase «levees caused»
But many residents here believe that these new levees caused all that extra water from the hurricane to funnel away from those protected areas and directly into Plaquemines Parish, which didn't flood like this during Hurricane Katrina.
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In the imaginary 100,000 - year history of hurricanes that R.M.S. had in its computers, no hypothetical storm that struck so far from New Orleans had ever caused the levees to fail.
Most of the damage was caused by storm surges that overwhelmed the levee system.
Failure to build strong enough levees — and fix known flaws in them — was blamed for catastrophic flooding in New Orleans, Mississippi and Alabama after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, which killed more than 1,800 people and caused more than $ 81 billion in damage.
Causing an estimated $ 108 billion in property damage, Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans on Aug. 29, 2005 and flooded 85 percent of the city after its levees were breached by a surge of storm and coastal waters.
Widespread erosion in the river's upper regions caused it to carry incredibly heavy loads of sediment downstream where deposits gradually raised the river bed above levees and surrounding fields.
Hurricane Katrina caused mass devastation and loss of life because recommendations to bolster the levees shielding New Orleans and other protective measures were neglected for decades despite urgent expert warnings, and because the federal emergency relief effort failed completely after the storm.
And in at least one of the levees that caused flooding, there were actually areas where the levee was intentionally built lower to the ground in order to protect the pump stations by relieving some of the water pressure.
On Aug. 29, 2005, the levees broke in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina slammed the Gulf Coast, causing more than $ 100 billion in damage and almost 2,000 deaths.
What's in a typical policy: Flood insurance covers direct physical losses by flood and losses resulting from flood - related erosion caused by heavy or prolonged rain, coastal storm surge, snow melt, blocked storm drainage systems, levee dam failure or other similar causes.
The natural disaster can cause ancillary issues including short - and long - term loss of electricity, property destruction and consequent loss of shelter, levee and dam breaches, road blockage and loss of communications facilities.
These levolutions cause underground pipes to explode (which creates a trench in the street), levees to break or skyscrapers to be destroyed.
It is a black space, a barrier and engineering feat that receives little attention until failures occur such as the 1927 levee break at Greenville, MS or more recently those caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Gustav only caused a few feet of surge, yet water levels in the Industrial Canal rose over eight feet, and the levees almost failed again.
As far - fetched as this is going to sound, the levee in the Lower Ninth Ward, where more damage was caused and lives lost than anywhere else, that levee was built to fail.
When Hurricane Katrina arrived in August 2005, the storm overwhelmed the levee system and flooded 80 percent of the city, caused about 1,300 deaths, forced a long evacuation, that led to the relocation (perhaps permanently) of 100,000 residents, damaged 70 % of the city's residences, and caused an estimated monetary loss of $ 40 - 50 billion.
Flash floods occur in small and steep watersheds and waterways and can be caused by short - duration intense precipitation, dam or levee failure, or collapse of debris and ice jams.
Mankind caused the disaster in New Orleans, but as a result of not keeping up the maintenance on the levees.
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And according to every report I've read, many, if not all, of the levee issues with Katrina were not caused by over-topping.
The erosion is caused largely by decades of building canals, levees and dams to control flooding, ease navigation and facilitate oil and gas exploration.
Several towns in western Hungary were flooded today with a toxic red sludge after the waste product from nearby aluminum processing plant broke through its containment reservoir — killing two, causing dozens of injuries, and creating an environmental disaster on a scale yet to be fully realized.According to the Associated Press, the incident occurred when a reservoir brimming with the toxic sludge, a byproduct from aluminum processing, overtook the levee designed to contain it, flooding two villages 100 miles southwest of Budapest.
The U.S. spends billions on levees, but river flooding still causes havoc across the country.
Without the storm surge caused by the hurricane, the levees would not have burst, leading to flood damage.
Flood insurance covers direct physical losses by flood and losses resulting from flood - related erosion caused by heavy or prolonged rain, coastal storm surge, snow melt, blocked storm drainage systems, levee dam failure or other similar causes.
This includes losses resulting from water overflowing rivers or streams, heavy or prolonged rain, storm surge, snow melt, blocked storm drainage systems, broken dams or levees, or other similar causes.
While some floods are caused by tropical storms and hurricanes, many more occur as a result of thunderstorms and heavy rains, rapid snow melt and breaches of levees or dams.