I have been in New Orleans, for speaking engagements, a number of times in recent years. I was there in 2006, a year after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, and saw some of the incredible damage when large portions of the city were flooded. I was back in the city again recently and saw how much progress had been made by the incredible citizens of that city. Yes, much work still has to be done. However, by exerting individual initiative rather than depending on government help, I saw what many people had done to rebuild their homes and their businesses. The spirit of New Orleans is alive and kicking. It is truly an amazing city. I looked around the area where the 17th Street Canal had broken through and flooded a large area. This was close to Lake Pontchartrain. New Orleans is basically between the Gulf of Mexico on the south and Lake Pontchartrain on the north. There is a waterway between the Gulf and the lake. During Katrina, water poured into the lake and then flowed south into the city though its canals. The pumping stations, which were meant to pump the water back into the lake, failed and the city, below sea level began to flood as water undermined the walls of the 17th Street and other canals. The water pressure eventually toppled some of those walls and the rest is history. As I stood there the other day, in the area where much construction is taking place, I thought about the correlation between the water pressure in the canals in New Orleans during the …
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