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New Orleans flood defenses hold, 16 years after Katrina failure
NEW ORLEANS: New Orleans, still scarred by the devastation wrought 16 years ago by Hurricane Katrina, held its breath as Ida bore down this week. But this time, the city’s flood defenses prevailed.In the wake of the 2005 storm that killed over 1,800 people and submerged whole swaths of New Orleans, the US government spent $14.5 billion (RM 60.1 billion) on levees, pumps and other protections for the city and nearby suburbs.“Ida came onshore with everything that was advertised: the surge, the rain, the wind,“ Louisiana governor John Bel Edwards told a briefing Monday.“The good news, first, is all of our levee systems... performed magnificently,“ he added.Located at the mouth of the Mississipp

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