{"id":413,"date":"2011-10-12T06:01:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T06:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/?p=413"},"modified":"2011-10-12T06:01:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T06:01:00","slug":"qa-which-of-the-following-statements-about-hurricane-katrina-is-false","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/?p=413","title":{"rendered":"Q&amp;A: Which of the following statements about Hurricane Katrina is false?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><i>Question by Cawlsing<\/i>: Which of the following statements about Hurricane Katrina is false?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>a. New Orleans&#8217;s natural defenses (marshland and barrier islands) to hurricane damage have been dwindling in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>b. About 50% of residents of New Orleans evacuated before Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans.<\/p>\n<p>c. There were many predictions of the high risk of hurricanes to New Orleans before Hurricane Katrina occurred.<\/p>\n<p>d. Hurricane Katrina hit land near New Orleans as a Category 3 hurricane and caused widespread flooding in New Orleans due to levee failure, even though the levees were designed to withstand a Category 3 hurricane.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best answer:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>Answer by pitademon2000<\/i><br \/>B is false<\/p>\n<p>everyone knew before Katrina that the barrier islands and marshes were being eroded and drying up.<\/p>\n<p>yes many predictions were made before Katrina about what would happen if a category 3 or higher hurricane hit.  They even got federal dollars to use to create evacuation plans for New Orleans&#8230;.they used that money to instead build the Lake Pontchartrain causeway (real good use huh?).  So the evacuation plan was never really made&#8230;which explains my answer being B<\/p>\n<p>Yes it made landfall as a Category 3, though it was at one point a category 5.  It still had a heck of a surge that toppled the levees and barriers.  There was not enough time for the water to settle back down before it hit.<\/p>\n<p>NOLA GUY:  I actually read the papers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you think? Answer below!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question by Cawlsing: Which of the following statements about Hurricane Katrina is false? a. New Orleans&#8217;s natural defenses (marshland and barrier islands) to hurricane damage have been dwindling in recent years. b. About 50% of residents of New Orleans evacuated before Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. c. There were many predictions of the high risk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[56,1211,1209,481,482,1210],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design-flaws","tag-about","tag-false","tag-following","tag-hurricane","tag-katrina","tag-statements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}