Noting that hurricane season was fast approaching, board members bucked the board president and installed an engineer as the ...

The U.S. has spent billions rebuilding New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Some of the interventions have, at ...

A 2019 infrastructure report card gave the state’s levees a "D," citing that despite significant investments, much more work ...

Lee’s doc with Message Pictures will revisit the hurricane that caused 1,392 ... archive illustrate the magnitude of Katrina, the aftermath of the levees breaking and the bungled recovery.” ...

And the consequences of levee failure happen fast. By some accounts, 80% of New Orleans was flooded by Hurricane Katrina in 2004 due to levee breaches, with water depths reaching 7 feet. In California ...

It was 20 years ago, in August 2005, that the great Crescent City of New Orleans was devastated by Hurricane Katrina ... 2006 HBO documentary “When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts ...

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 ...

The city of New Orleans is still rebuilding and repairing homes that were damaged in the fallout from 2005's Hurricane Katrina ... water pumping stations, and levees that attempt to protect ...