Susan Straight

I wrote a story about a man who is orphaned during the 1927 Mississippi River flood in Louisiana, and he's on the banks of levee, and he's starving. And there are other people starving, too. And he's so desperate, he's seven years old, that he finds a pig that's been abandoned. He kills it with a hammer, and he drags it back.

American Writer

Seth Shostak

Disasters happen. We still have no way to eliminate earthquakes, wildfires, hurricanes, floods or droughts. We cope as best we can by fortifying ourselves against danger with building codes and levees, and by setting aside money to clean up afterwards.

American Scientist

Billy Tauzin

You probably have to have redundant levee systems with canals in between them, like the Dutch have, to make sure that incoming water is channeled off to areas where you deal with it rather than have it drown you.

American Politician

Nina Easton

Unless engineers can stop southern Louisiana from sinking into the Gulf - the Mississippi Delta is the fastest-disappearing land on the planet - even post-Katrina's modernized levees will be overwhelmed.

American Journalist

Aaron Neville

We used to play football on the levee, with no shirts on in the summer - August in New Orleans - and my skin would turn red. They'd call me Redskin, Red Apache, then it turned around to Apache Red.

American Musician

Sonny Perdue

We have seen levee breaks and flooding in the wake of storms, some of which have caused the loss of life, and USDA is ready to assist in any way we can.

Bryan Batt

I did grow up in New Orleans. I grew up right on the lake, right across the levee.

American Actor

Douglas Brinkley

The answer to New Orleans's levee woes is painfully obvious: money and willpower.

American Author

Rosecrans Baldwin

Loving relatives and home-cooked meals are solid levees against a recession.

American Novelist

Lloyd Doggett

Levees are crucial during floods and storms, helping to protect land from water damage.

Natural Disaster

Building a levee involves careful engineering to ensure it is strong enough to hold back water.

Civil Engineering

Levees may form naturally by sediment deposited during floods, aside from being man-made.

Geographical Feature

Historic levees were formal occasions, so imagine a grand event with formal dress and etiquette.

Historical Ceremonies

Levees were typically associated with royalty and high society, reflecting social hierarchy and power.

Royalty Connection

An invitation to a levee indicated social prestige and was a sign of favor with the royalty.

Status Symbol

 of course that's again a very long-term vision something that might be shorter term still on the order of years but maybe not decades is to have a system like this build levees out of sandbags to protect against flooding classically the times when you want to use robots instead of people our situation is

Termite-Inspired Robots...

 We would need to build seawalls and levees to protect those people living on the coast, many of whom are too poor to build them today, which is why it must mean an end to a narrowly nationalistic geopolitics that allows us to define the suffering of those living elsewhere in the world as insignificant,

How we could change the...

 but we rarely create behaviors that are in tune with the plants and animal species within those environments it is possible though for us to begin building much more responsive landscapes this prototype of a spillway basically splices the levee it takes the sediment-laden waters pouring down the

Creating living...

 But with these rules, this is really only one kind of robot body that you could imagine. You could imagine many different kinds of robot bodies. So if you think about robots that maybe could move sandbags and could help build levees, or we could think of robots that built out of soft materials

What intelligent...

 It's a quick buck. Now, the reality is, for a lot of these problems, there are some technical fixes, a lot of them. I call these technical fixes sandbag strategies. So you know there's a storm coming, the levee is broken, no one's put any money into it, you surround your home with sandbags.

3 ways to plan for the...

 Imagine the staggering cost of protecting this vital infrastructure with levees. But there might be some changes in store that you might not imagine. For example, planes require more runway for takeoff because the heated, less dense air, provides for less lift.

Vicki Arroyo: Let's...

 communities further downriver were hit with the full brunt of the Mississippi two-thirds of all the levees were breached though towns rallied to protect their lives and livelihoods the damage was still immense over ten billion

Floods 101 PIPE National...

 imagine the staggering cost of protecting this vital infrastructure with levees but there might be some changes in store that you might not imagine for example planes require more runway for takeoff because the heated

Let's prepare for our...

 sounds like the levee channel area is pretty busy right now they know once they get past that they can get rid of the mall they can get into like I said into the housing and it's a lot easier for them to get lost

Jumping the Border Fence...

 wreaked havoc on coastal and inland communities alike whole towns were devastated some nearly wiped off the map in New Orleans a levee breach sent water flowing into much of the city leaving