Hurricane Georges A very massive group of levees may be all that is in the way of lower lying New Orleans and destruction with a visit from Hurricane Georges. Without the levee system and concrete flood walls Georges could have catastrophic effects in New Orleans. But with this man-made hurricane protection system protecting the city people. New Orleans is spared the casualties and damage past storms have wrought. The levee system is important because the …showed first 75 words of 1989 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1989 total…flooded houses, then deposited tons of sand on top of the ready-for-harvest rice fields. Each fall, in the rainy season, sand washes into Salifoudret and the residents gather it to sell to construction companies for $16 a truckload. The deposits have never been as big as this year, residents said, as dozens loaded 150- pound baskets of sand on their heads and sorted it into 6-foot piles along the riverbed so trucks could cart it away.