New Orleans isn't ready

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I filmed this outside Touro ER today, and it was another wash out. It got so deep at one point they had to block off the street and the ambulance crews couldn't get to the entrance. I had a pickup on the fifth floor so I missed showing the street closure but the water got another 6" deeper than is apparent in the video. Touro, if you didn't know, is located in uptown and it's at a higher elevation than most of the city with the exception of the French Quarter. It only took 3 hrs of rain to completely overwhelm the pumps and drainage. A number of other streets closed today too. Now that the city has to close the canals, the infamous breaks from Katrina, with massive gates and a string of pumps; that the Corp admittedly doesn't have faith in, when the next tropical system heads our way, there is no way the city will keep up with the deluge. I also foresee higher tidal levels at the existing cat 3 levies. Unless a TARP level federal commitment heads this way there is no way New Orleans will get a cat 5 protection system in place, and now the feds are running up the national debt there is no way those billions will materialize. New Orleans will flood again, and I fear it will be even worse than before. Another Katrina event and we're done. People will not want to persevere through another recovery. Recovery won't be possible next time anyway, but that's the topic of another discussion, and in any case I have my scuba gear.