Lamar White, Jr
Bayou Brief
https://www.bayoubrief.com/2019/07/12/national-news-coverage-of-tropical-storm-barry-is-its-own-disaster/?Bayou Brief
""New Orleans, of course, did not flood in 2005 because it was hit by a hurricane. It flooded because the federal government’s levee protection system failed. The catastrophic flooding began after Katrina left.
Both CBS and CNN have emphasized the possibility of {Tropical Storm / Cat 1 Hurricane} Barry being a bigger rain event than Katrina. But rain didn’t cause the city to flood; levee failures did.
The reason the city received such a deluge {Wednesday prior to Barry} is a different story, but, apparently, it’s not polite to talk about climate science in a state dominated by Big Oil and the petrochemical industry. So, the official version remains what it always has been: This 301-year-old city was built in the wrong place. Pay no attention to the fact that this flooding occurred in parts of the city above sea-level.""
Lamar White, Jr
Bayou Brief
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