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POPSPredicting (but not preventing) Catastrophism Ivor and his team sought tenaciously—at times desperately—to have their warnings heeded by government officials. Nobody listened. "A slow-moving Category 3 hurricane or larger will flood the city. There will be between 17 and 20 feet of standing water, and New Orleans as we now know it will no longer exist." —Ivor van Heerden, October 29, 2004