We are waiting for the levee to break.

I ride the levee on my mountain bike and I know that there are areas that are thinner and weaker in places than others.

Chances are, we're going to break a levee before we reach those flows. We haven't seen levels like this since 1997, and these are significant levels on the lower San Joaquin River.

there would be overflow from the levee, maybe a small break in the levee. The collapse of a significant portion of the levee leading to the very fast flooding of the city was not envisioned.

Everybody anticipated the breach of the levee, Mr. President,

The levee system is still in a weakened condition,