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These terrible floods were, you are correct, absolutely inevitable. Anybody with even the most basic understanding of soils and agriculture could figure that one out. It wouldn't have taken supercomputers hard rock feeds and weather satelites to determine what was inevitable, though those certainly helped determine when. As for "false alarms" hard rock feeds - there had been a day and a half warning that it was going to be a category 5 and that it was going to slam right into New Orleans. With something on that scale, you only need to stay and be wrong once. Leaving, especially after hard rock feeds a mandatory evacuation call, was always going to be a cheaper, safer option, even if nothing happened. There is one aspect to all this that I'm not sure anyone is quite thinking about yet - the ground there would naturally be swampy but has been drained and held fairly dry for a very long time. This may have created weak-spots, as soil will have a different volume when wet or dry. It is possible that the coastal defenses - especially when tonne weights are being dropped on them - may suffer significant damage due to the ground simply collapsing.
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