during the reagan administration. tell me where we are right now and what happened here after katrina. we re standing at the industrial canal levy. water came over the top of a wall similar to this. we didn t have a concrete apron then. what you had was grass. the water pouring over the top went over the ground, ate away at the ground. took away the footing. and the wall fell down. and this area was devastated. totally devastated. a wall of water, 20, 25 feet, moving very fast. it completely washed through the lower ninth ward. what if that was preventible? should the storm surge never have come up the canal? had there been an apron, it would not have been