Call the New Orleans flooding a man-made disaster created by the failure of the federal government's levees.

Levees.org's petition requests the President of the United States to please call the flooding of New Orleans in 2005 during Katrina a "man-made disaster created by the failure of the federal government's levee protection system." Levees.org launched this petition because, prior to now, the POTUS consistently refers to the flooding of the N.O. region as a natural disaster caused by a hurricane. It is not. Katrina was merely the trigger for the horrific flooding that killed over 1,600 and flooded 80% of a great American city. Katrina, only a moderately powerful storm in New Orleans, revealed structural flaws in the levee system and exposed blatant civil engineering mistakes by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.