Even a strong wind can push a surge of water over the island, he said.
This would have exposed the city to the storm system's roughest winds and would have pushed storm surge against levees and into canals untested by Katrina - and therefore unfortified since.
"Draw the parallel with the same kind of bold leadership that McCain demonstrated in pushing the surge strategy that allowed us to win in Iraq.
Both of them, however, seem to be "go big or go home" thinkers who are likely to push for surge-like actions in the war against ISIS and possibly in the Afghan war as well.
"Several hundred East Siders, mostly children or mothers carrying, dragging or pushing children, surged around the Duke" at the Vladeck Houses, where he stopped by a basement laundry that was maintained at 10 cents an hour, The Times said.
Fans stood through an intermittent deluge as My Morning Jacket, a band from Louisville that pushes pealing, surging Southern rock toward soul and psychedelia, played a three-hour set in Saturday's wee hours.
"During a crush of photographers at the awards' podium, a media member with a shoulder-mounted video camera pushed and surged towards the stage, turned and hit Tiger Woods in the mouth," his agent Mark Steinberg said.
"A media member with a shoulder-mounted video camera pushed and surged toward the stage, turned and hit Tiger Woods in the mouth," his agent, Mark Steinberg, wrote in an email to the Associated Press.
"During a crush of photographers as the awards podium at the World Cup event in Italy, a media member with a shoulder-mounted video camera pushed and surged toward the stage, turned and hit Tiger Woods in the mouth," Mark Steinberg of Excel Sports said in an email.
Representative Bud Shuster, the Pennsylvania Republican who heads the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, is leading a bipartisan push for a surge in spending on roads, bridges and mass transit.
