When Democrats run a City
Or.....
When your city is increasingly further below sea level and storms are more frequent and severe.
It seems likely that the water will top the levees. We'll see if the Corpse of Engineers have pumps that keep pumping even when water is over the levees.
But this is not Katrina. Then people in NOLA went to bed and things were fine. But the storm surge came in and topped the levees and the pumps failed. I was jogging on a treadmill several days before landfall and turned to the weather channel, and learned that weather buoys in the Gulf were getting sunk by waves in excess of 30 feet and maybe going up to 50 feet. I said "oh shit." I went home and started pulling chairs and swings inside and cleaning drains. And I live 150 miles inland.
In Miss nearly 300 died when a storm surge of over 30 feet basically washed away anything it reached coming ashore. And we're talking like half a mile or so. That's not going to happen.
But the areas along the Miss River as far as Tennessee at least are saturated already. There's a lot of water coming down the River that is already over flood stage, and a lot of rain coming.