Daniel Hitchings
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Daniel Hitchings Hitchings
The sense of knowing that how much the world had changed for the Army Corps of Engineers struck Daniel Hitchings in a tense conference call last month. Mr. Hitchings is the director of the hurricane response task force for the Corps of Engineers, was on a call with Federal Emergency Management Agency' representatives and the National Flood Insurance Program. He explained that the levees and floodwalls around New Orleans, both existing and new, had been designed to be tall enough to hold back storm surges, but would allow about two feet of a six-foot wave to splash over the top.