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mother casters storm. triggering a flash flood emergency and intensify into a named leaving neighborhoods under water. morgan chesky is in new orleans tonight. reporter: tonight louisiana under a state of emergency after a fast-moving storm threw waterspouts and flash flooding that brought new orleans to a soggy stand still. in some areas, nearly ten inch of rain in just two hours. disabled cars all over the rain. it s like a hurricane. reporter: canal street living up to its name. i m struck. i m stranded out here. i don t know what to do. reporter: when it comes to keeping the city dry, these drainage canals are crucial. only problem they can only handle so much water, leaving these low-lying neighborhoods at risk with nothing more than a few inch of rain. the building tropical threat casting a shadow as far as texas. be prepared for this particular storm. this is the time to start getting
orleans was circled by levees and drainage canals. i think the real challenge right now is you don t know who evacuated and who didn t. how do you methodically check all the ground to see if somebody is out there that needs to be rescued and hasn t been able to contact anybody. frankly that s almost the entire texas coast so the challenge is pretty extraordinary. we were hearing from one of our reporters who was driving to beaumont that in some of these small towns it s just whatever resources they have as a town and they re trying to evacuate sometimes hundreds of people. those evacuations have been so extraordinary, the people showing such bravery. take us behind the scenes. and the coast guard obviously playing a big role in this. they have been integral in rescuing hundreds if not thousands of people both in the air and on the water in boats. what s going on to address exactly what you were talking about, admiral? well, until you can get
against is a category 1. here, we face category 5. we probably could not afford to protect against a 1,000-year event. was katrina a 100-year storm? i mean, katrina was a great storm, but what flooded new orleans, was actually simply design failures by engineers when the levy system, the flood walls collapsed on the drainage canals. they weren t even overtopped. the water was two feet below the top. it was a design issue. is it because of what they were built of or poor design? poor design primarily. the flood walls that collapsed during katrina were designed
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