Outsiders' perception of New Orleans' hurricane risk and locals' attitudes toward storms

I bet a fair amount of national perception is based on the sensationalized reporting from news media. I can't remember if it was the Weather Channel or Accuweather's station on DirecTV, but one of them had a TV met near the Lower Ninth Ward flood wall. They were talking about all the work that had been done, and that Barry was going to be a good test of if the walls will fail or not. Barry was never that type of threat though. It was never gonna push a huge surge on the east side of the river, west side of the river or anywhere. It was a flooding threat from rain. There is something to be said for local experience.