It is not just about hurricane Pam......gulf coast has been a hurricane prone area over the years and it had always given the federal goverment plenty of time to examine the levees of New Orleans which unforetunately was never done. Last year's Ivan was a wake up call which no one listened to. Ivan was supposed to make a landfall somewhere between mobile alabama and Biloxi mississippi but changed it course and touched ground on gulf shores....between mobile and pensacola area. It would have made a deep impact over new orleans had it made the landfall where weather pundits predicted.