The improved levee system built after Katrina to protect New Orleans and its environs, just nearing completion, appears to have held
, Hurricane Katrina made landfall in southern Louisiana. As it travelled north, it overwhelmed the levee system designed to protect New Orleans. By August 30th, 80% of the city was underwater. More than 1,800 people died in what became the costliest natural disaster in American history. The Army Corps of Engineers, which designed the old network of floodwalls, called it “a system in name only”.
Louisiana has more covid cases per 100,000 people than almost any other state. Its hospitals are jammed almost to capacity, making it all but impossible to move patients from the southern part of the state to other facilities farther inland. Consequently, hospitals directly in Ida’s path were not evacuated, though dozens of nursing homes were.
The worst impact may be felt by those outside of the levee system. New Orleans is flanked by vulnerable coastal communities already in danger of being wiped off the map by rising sea levels, and Ida looks to be hastening that job. The most endangered areas include Grand Isle, a popular barrier island two hours south of New Orleans, and, an eroding islet in Terrebonne Parish that has long been occupied by Native Americans.
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