Overtopping Quotes

There are lots of ways for levees to fail. Overtopping is just one of them. - Michael Lindell

Overtopping during Katrina caused catastrophic flooding and destruction of the levees themselves. It is inevitable that the levees will again be overtopped - the only question is when. - David Daniel

I think they'll be concerned, but ultimately supportive... Look, an accountant might have looked at actuarial tables and said it wasn't cost-efficient to have levees to protect against a Category 5 storm because the odds of that hitting the area were slim, and the odds of it overtopping levees even if it hit were slim as well. - Mark Davis

...But this would have been minimal for two to three hours. So in real time, by 10 or 11 o'clock, the overtopping would have stopped and people would have turned on pumps. - Dr. Hassan Mashrique