add 60 centimeters to it, hello. you ll see the water somewhere near the top of these platforms. so, again, the issue is, a lot of the businesses. a lot of the store fronts and things like that, and houses as well, they do have flood defense you know, metal gates that are water tight that they can put in that can stop some water from what they re seeing right now from causing significant damage. the issue is when it reaches a certain level, it s either going to jump on top of the gates or simply come from the ground, come through the plumbing. there s nothing they can do to really stop it at all. they ve been seeing this phenomenon more and more over the last couple of years. the mayor who was actually in this square in the last hour, touring around officials from the italian government said this is climate change. he s pinning this on climate change. we can t pin one specific event on climate change. he is correct in saying, look, sea levels have been rising
i ask everyone to stay vigilant and be safe. this is always been projected to be a rain. the storm isn t as fast as it might have been and a slow storm means more flooding. so louisianians are bracing for rising rivers and storm surges after hurricane katrina in 2005 in which 1800 people died artificial defenses were upgraded but not all of them some levees like near the town of myrtle grove on the mississippi river are still sub par. for this sector of levee hasn t been done yet and it can t be done soon enough we re tired of going through this louisiana is no stranger to devastating flooding coastal towns and cities including new orleans a below sea level the area s wetlands should provide a natural form of flood defense but building and land use change mean that residents have to rely on levees and hope that they hold. it in the humphrey
clamored for, was at the top of every single priority list was a category 5 flood defense. we have a category 3 defense. one that may not have held up against a katrina. there are much bigger storms out there, the bush administration set in motion a far more feeble rebuild on the levee system, and so, yeah, if we want to be really safe here, the government will ante up, do what the dutch did, build a system that will stand up against 10,000 year weather events. what has been gained and lost in the past ten years of recovery? well, you know, the good news was, i think the local citizenry got something of a wakeup call, we had a fairly corrupt extremely corrupt local and in some levels state government, people realized we do get the government you deserve, new orleans had been lulled into a