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I remember watching this documentary in 2004 and it being a good, entertaining documentary not much different than the various programs created about the Yellowstone np supervolcano risk but this doc was predicting a hurricane scenario in New Orleans and how the city was below sea level, etc. The next year I was astonished to see exactly what the documentary had predicted had materialized

That’s right. Ivan not hitting made everyone think they didn’t need to leave for Katrina, because they were ok feeling a little bit of Ivan and thought they could handle it

Hello! I’m a 6th grade science teacher and I’m creating a video for my class about Hurricane Katrina. May I use short clips from this video to highlight NOLA before, during, and after Katrina?

Absolutely bone-chilling to see how accurate this documentary's predictions were of New Orleans' vulnerability to catastrophic flooding, which is exactly what happened when Hurricane Katrina sent a 20-foot+ storm surge up the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, flooding New Orleans for more than three months. New Orleans should have been prepared for a worst-case scenario as what would happen in August 2005, yet they didn't. Their own flood control system wasn't even fully operational when Katrina struck, it was a flood control system whose origins dated back in 1965--50 YEARS EARLIER. What's worse, the flood control system was only 80 to 90% complete by 2005. New Orleans was always a disaster waiting to happen, it was always going to be a matter of time.

Who the F builds a city in such an incredibly stupid location ? Americans !

Actually Led Zeppelin predicted the Hurricane Katrina disaster first in the song "When The Levees Break"

How do I stop these stupid videos from showing up in my suggestions?

More like hurricane tortilla

Boys... we may have made a mistake with this one... and there have been a few. Leaning Tower of Pisa was mistakenly built on an un-even deposit of soot and clay. But an entire major city?

Federal officials predicted it not PBS.

The main player that was left out of this was "Mr. Go" - Mississippi River Gulf Outlet (a commercial shipping channel) which was a significant contributor to the flooding.

Live in stupid places, win stupid prizes.

Willie Dixon predicted the catastrophe back in the 1930's or so. Google it. Led Zeppelin "When the Levi Breaks".

I'm amazed the comments section isn't all saying this is a conspiracy

building new orleans on a swamp is like that castle joke in monty python's holy grail

Sounds more like federal officials predicted it, according to the 0:15 mark

My family is from louisiana and had to leave before katrina and their houses ended up getting flooded. My uncle now owns a bunch of restaurants in nola and its crazy how devastating even small hurricanes are for the city. It could take him a year for his restaurants to be working again after a smaller storm

Man, I know that the hurricanes are no joke, but the Americans make shity houses as well

yeah basically every single major disaster has been predicted by scientists. its entirely policy makers faults for deliberately ignoring their warnings or making it impossible for essential people to do whats necessary

No. Literally everyone with common sense saw this coming.

I have 30 year old slides from Army and nursing Ed courses that list "novel coronavirus" as one of the top candidates for a pandemic.

To think that this aired months before Katrina, and also to think that two of the people interviewed here, Mr. Maestri and Dr. Van Heerden were sacked for calling the state and federal governments out for their inaction after the storm ended.

Dude, they guys that BUILT all that stuff predicted this would happen eventually.

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Anyone with a brain could have predicted it. And guess what? It's gonna happen again. And again. As long as there's hurricanes.

Those in power alot of the time know what's going to happen... no one told them how they have to tell you about it though! So, you'll find this info inside a filing cabinet, buried underneath a mountain of boxes, at the back of a cramped, overflowing basement, down a giant flight of stairs that you have to go through several buildings to get to :D. "they told you quite clearly!"

It takes a real genius to predict that building a city below sea level right next to the sea is a bad idea

Ok but what im worried about is that guy standing right next to that flywheel

We all have the media to thank for doing so much fake news we can’t tell if there is actually a wolf.

Hurricane Ivan wasn't "years" before Katrina. It was just one year.

We knew this would happen before Katrina hit... the people of New Orleans just ignored it, and the rescue was bungled.

I mean, what do you expect if you bring a bowl outside the rain? But still that's a great video from PBS

Who would have thought a massive hurricane could flood a city built below sea level?

Why would anybody built a city on a swamp, below sea level?

PBS sucks and this is bullshit.

=0 .... wtf...I knew they had an idea but Jesus this is bad, they KNEW.

when we believe we are invulnerable is when we are in greater danger.

Nit so much predicted as explained what most people in the area already knew... and Katrina was far from the worst case scenario as it was the river flooding New Orleans and not the lake. The problem was everyone from the city government to the federal government kicked the can down the line as no one wanted to take the budgetary hit for something that hadn't happened for several decades... sort of like Texas not winter proofing their energy infrastructure because it had been so long since a deep freeze. Sooner or later that once is a lifetime storm happens, and someone else's problem becomes your problem and they try to pretend no one could have foreseen this... when everyone freaking saw it but it was politically expedient to use the money for something else.

Imagine seeing this, seeing Katrina and still living in New Orleans. Maybe it happens once every 20 years, but if you move, your kids won’t have to make the wrong decision. If you don’t move, your kids bond with a city that’s a trap.

Pretty sure there was plenty of warning that a big enough storm surge would be disastrous for a city located below sea level on the coast. I know people are like “it’s my home, blah blah blah I could never leave” but some places are beyond help, they are just located in very bad locations and people shouldn’t be living there anymore. A city can be rebuilt elsewhere, culture travels with the people it isn’t glued to the land.

New Orleans SHOULDN'T Exist. Like many places it was build in the wrong place

does take much intelligence to predict a city below sea level close to the Gulf with frequent hurricanes will get flooded

When the french started to colonize Orleans, Indians told them not to because it floods alot, look what is happening now.

Plus they stupidly failed to predict all the screen TV's floating down Bourbon Street!

Was I too late?

just doomsday talk nonsense...

and then they proceeded to do not a damn thing, and let thousands die or have their lives destroyed

I lived in SE Louisiana in the mid 70s. People were talking about Katrina back then. They just didn't know that would be the name. What they did know was that a strong hurricane would come to New Orleans and hit from a certain specific direction. So, PBS really weren't the ones to predict it.

everybody think they know better than scientists.until it’s too late

So in short new Orleans is the cheapest state to buy a house? 😂