With the canals closed under this plan and a storm sitting over the city dropping heavy rainfall, Orleans and Jefferson, which is about 1 million people roughly, close to 1 million people, are at risk of catastrophic flooding not from the perimeter, but from the rain internal flooding, which is what we are trying to point out here in this testimony.
Landrieu highlights the risk of internal flooding during storms due to closed canals.
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