Hurricane Georges
Beginning of paper
A very massive group of levees may be all that
is in the way of lower lying New
Orleans and destruction with a visit from Hurricane
Georges. Without the levee system
and concrete flood walls Georges could have catastrophic
effects in New Orleans. But
with this man-made hurricane protection sy ....
Middle of paper
.... levee system has been a lasting issue. The
levees were built taller and
stronger, but hurricanes in 1915 and 1947 flooded the city
killing about 200 and 47
people. The current hurricane protection system was
approved by Congress in 1965 after
Hurricane Betsy killed 81 people in southern Louisiana.
Hundreds of millions of dollars
has produced what may be the world's most elaborate flood
protection system, said Jim
Addison, chief of public affairs for the U.S. Army Corps ....
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Word count: 1990
Page count: 8 (approximately 250 words per page)
