Corps: Levees Should Hold In New Orleans
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Associated Press
Published: Tue, July 22, 2008 - 3:00 pm
Last Updated: Monday, August 11, 2008 - 5:01 pm
Last Updated: Monday, August 11, 2008 - 5:01 pm
floodwaters will break through the levees.
Emergency leaders are urging people to move away from the levees. An emergency
management official says if Dolly continues along the same path as
Hurricane Beulah from 1967, the levees won't "hold that much
water."
Dolly is expected to dump 15 to 20 inches of rain.
It's not yet at hurricane strength, but hurricane warnings
extend from Brownsville to Corpus Christi, as well as part of
Mexico.
Forecasters say it's expected to make landfall late today or
early tomorrow as a hurricane with sustained winds of 74 to 95
miles an hour.
A spokesman at the Naitonal Hurricane Center says people in the
warning areas need to finish their preparations. He says conditions
will be "deteriorating rapidly" later today and tonight.
In the Rio Grande Valley, people have been waiting in lines to
get sandbags.
People planning to ride out the storm have been picking up
supplies -- including ice, water and batteries -- at a Wal-Mart
about 15 miles from the Mexican border.
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How bad are they if it is not even a hurricane and they don’t think they will hold?