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A: Of course we'd known that the levies would break; in fact, the President had the information about a more powerful hurricane destroying the levees, yet he chose not to develop any emergency planning. The levees themselves were only built to withstand a Category 2 or possibly Category 3 hurricane. We can definitely predict that these disasters will happen, with advanced computer models and other new technologies.
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