Hope prevails that the levee system for the Mississippi River will hold . ` ` Landscape suffers considerably '' if levees fail , expert Sam Harris says . `` There will be property lost , hopefully no lives , but according to a plan executed by the Corps of Engineers as opposed to a rapidly unfolding catastrophe , '' he said . The levee system ` ` never been tested under flood conditions like this '' ` ` Nature is trying to destroy our land , '' says LSU 's Mike Smith .
Hope prevails that the levee system for the Mississippi River will hold . ` ` Landscape suffers considerably '' if levees fail , expert Sam Harris says . The levee system ` ` never been tested under flood conditions like this '' ` ` Nature is trying to destroy our land , '' says LSU 's Mike Smith .