On the morning of Aug. 30, residents of southeastern Louisiana awoke to assess the damage wrought by Hurricane Ida that roared ashore the previous night. Streets were flooded, utility poles leaned precipitously, and entire buildings sat in piles of rubble, felled by 150 mile per hour winds. But the city’s extensive flood protection measures withstood the storm. A $14.5 billion storm protection system, built by the US Army Corps of Engineers after the city’s levees catastrophically failed in 2005 during Hurricane Katrina, includes taller levees, seawalls, floodgates, pumps and drainage. The new system, designed to withstand an intense storm like Ida, survived. “We did not have another Katrin
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