Katrina makes landfall in Louisiana ... pushes others off their foundations. The Lower Ninth Ward begins flooding extremely rapidly, and a barge drifts through the major part of the breach ...

When the levees were breached in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, the Ninth Ward was inundated. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted ...

But Katrina was too much for the under-maintained levees, and they quickly broke from the force of incoming water, destroying houses like this one in the city's Lower Ninth Ward. At its worst ...