Board members overseeing the New Orleans area levee authority pushed ... have raised concern that reforms put in place after the levee failures during Hurricane Katrina are being abandoned.
"As a researcher who has closely observed, personally experienced local struggles," says the writer, Bethany Garfield, "it’s ...
HE’S READY FOR THE WINTER OLYMPICS. HE’S GOT HIS SKIS OUT. HE’S ABOUT TO MAKE A RUN ON, ON ON THE LEVEE AT THE NEW ORLEANS LAKEFRONT. HE’S GETTING HIS BOOTS READY. HE HAS LITERALLY BEEN ...
And the consequences of levee failure happen fast. By some accounts, 80% of New Orleans was flooded by Hurricane Katrina in ...
“We can’t keep being asked to be resilient and to put our trust in leadership that is going to wait for the levees to ... the city of New Orleans for its alleged failure to prevent the new ...
Up Call Hurricane Katrina, which struck in August 2005, remains one of the most devastating storms in US history. It caused ...
Five years ago, Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans with a 28-foot (8.5 meter) storm surge and 2 feet (61 centimeters) of rainfall. The water easily breached the city's old levee system in about ...