Also from the SciAm article linked in the previous post:
When Allison, the first tropical storm of the 2001 hurricane season, dumped five inches of rain a day on New Orleans for a week in June, it nearly maxed out the pumping system. [Walter] Maestri [a local emergency management director], spent his nights in a flood-proof command bunker built underground to evade storm winds; from there he dispatched police, EMTs, firefighters and National Guardsmen.
Is Mr. Maestri still around? Yep—he’s the Director of Emergency Management, and it looks like he’s been speaking to the press about the possibility of a New Orleans hurricane for several years.
Wonder if that bunker survived.
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