Lapeyre's role was a critical one following the federal levee failures that exposed deep flaws in south Louisiana's hurricane protection systems. In Katrina's wake, voters and state legislators ...

Making landfall on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans with ... which lessened the protection provided by the city's levees, made New Orleans more vulnerable in 2005.

The levees currently surrounding New Orleans are designed to protect the city from category one or two hurricanes. Katrina was a category four hurricane and the levees failed when Lake Pontchartrain ...

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 ...

"We didn't expect the levees to fall." It's impossible not to feel like we've seen so many of these images before. Hurricane ...

Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent levee failures forced us to rebuild from the ground up. Five years later, the BP oil spill created new concerns about an economic structure that was not working.