New Orleans

In addition to incompetence, curruption, and inattention at every level (from individuals, to mayor and city council, to governer, sentators and congressmen, to fed programs), new evidence shows that even correctly designed and implimented levess sunk too much over the years. So not only did local citizens and leaders not press for more and better levees, and not only did they not ensure proper installation, in cases where they may have, the gradual sinkage was so great as to have created susceptability.