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How New Orleans Flooded
1. Katrina makes landfall in Louisiana at 6:10 a.m., but the flooding of residential areas in greater New Orleans actually begins an hour and a half earlier. Between 4:30 and 5 a.m., levees ...
New Orleans Was Called Resilient After Attack. It Didn’t Need the Reminder.
The city was seeing glimmers of optimism for what the new year might bring before the horrendous attack on the French Quarter ...
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Hurricane Katrina
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.
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Plan to replace New Orleans' Industrial Canal lock being revived. Neighbors are pushing back.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is pursuing a plan to replace the 100-year-old lock that connects the Mississippi River to ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency9y
For New Orleans Jews, Katrina — 10 years on — still fosters communal bond
After the levees were breached on Aug. 29 ... who was the federation’s president in the aftermath of Katrina, noted that among New Orleans Jews, “there still is a lingering sense of community ...
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Head of New Orleans levee authority resigns amid clash over agency’s police force
The levee authority now operates and maintains the $14.5 billion post-Katrina project. (Photo by Sophia Germer, NOLA.com, The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate) Guidry said Chandler’s ...
After New Year's Day terrorist attack, New Orleans tries to balance tourism and grief
Less than 36 hours after Wednesday’s attack and before we knew the names of all of the victims, New Orleans reopened Bourbon ...
Axios on MSN2mon
As New Orleans watches Helene aftermath, lessons and memories of Katrina reappear
Hurricane Helene is its own disaster, but New Orleans knows its blueprint ... many of these images before. Hurricane Katrina ...
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Nonprofits in New Orleans: 10 Years After Katrina
In August 2005, Hurricane Katrina roared through the Gulf Coast, killing more than 1,000 people and causing more than $100 billion of damage. In New Orleans, the failure of the levee system resulted ...
Business Insider India1y
New Orleans is trying to ensure that Katrina's devastation never happens again
While Katrina was 10 years ago, it's still the model for what could happen because the factors that made the storm so devastating are getting worse — sea levels are rising and as global ...
Yahoo News1y
What If Hurricane Katrina Hit New Orleans Today?
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 50 ...
Fast Company4mon
Hurricane Katrina
New Orleans just pulled a Mazda and a sofa out ... s Category 3-fueled storm surge broke New Orleans fragile levees. Katrina wrought more than $80 billion in destruction, but the worst damage ...