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[Crow3]

That is true..the areas spared from flooding are on higher ground.

What has been claimed by some is that the breach in the protective walls or levees, was deliberate to allow the excess water to spread out over the lower lying areas, and thus spare the more affluent areas and the tourist attractions and historically valuable areas in the French Quarter.

I do not believe that what is claimed is true, nor do I disbelieve it. But it does seem possible. The poor nearly always get the dirtier end of the stick whenever a disaster strikes.

I understand that areas east of New Orleans were much harder hit. From Slidell to Biloxi and also Bayou Le Batre in Alabama were reduced to rubble, taking away the gambling industry. The Biloxi area has been greatly built up over the past ten years, thanks to that industry, which is now no doubt out of business at least temporarily.