After heavy rainfall overwhelmed pump stations in New Orleans and caused widespread flooding over the weekend, some officials say they're not satisfied with the city's response.

"Are our city pumps working as they should?" said Councilman Jason Williams. "If we can't handle a bad storm, then what will we do when there's a hurricane?"

Williams said the council will meet Tuesday to seek answers.

Some neighborhoods saw between 8 and 10 inches (20 and 25 centimeters) of rain over a few hours Saturday. City officials said that was too much for the Sewerage & Water Board's 24 pump stations to cope with even though all were operating.

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Some cars got stuck, with water covering their wheels, and people slogged through water that was knee deep and even hip deep in some places. There were also reports of businesses and homes getting water damage.

"There is no drainage system in the world that can handle that immediately," the Sewerage & Water Board's  Executive Director Cedric Grant said, according to WWL. "I continue to tell the people what this system can do. It's pretty amazing in that it can do one inch of rain in the first hour and a half an inch of rain every hour after that. We are dealing with 8 to 10 inches of rain in three hours. It is not going to be able to pump that in an hour."

NOLA.com reports some candidates for city offices have already raised the city's flood response as a campaign issue.

Deputy Mayor Ryan Berni told reporters the city has no immediate plans to request an emergency declaration from the state, but that could change as the city collects more information on flood damage.

City homeland security director Aaron Miller says that with more heavy rain predicted for Monday afternoon, the city's pumping capacity could be overwhelmed again.