Except when the predecessor of FEMA studied this very scenario, in 1968.
From the New York Times:
A Predicted Flood
Published: September 10, 2005
To the Editor:
In 1968 I was the lead consultant on a study of federal disaster response for the Office of Emergency Preparedness, the predecessor of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. One aspect of the study was estimating the effects of a superdisaster on the existing emergency response system.
The model we used was hurricane-caused flooding in New Orleans associated with failures of the Lake Pontchartrain levees. The real world is playing out our predictions with tragic consequences.
Roger H. Marz
Bath, Mich., Sept. 4, 2005
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