How mind-boggling to think that so much Hurricane Katrina history is ... history professor that August of 2005, when the hurricane hit town and dozens of levees were overrun.

Check here for the latest information on Hurricane Rita and from the Katrina-stricken Gulf Coast region. Items are time-stamped when entered. CNN: Levee protecting ... the city by air faced ...

Katrina makes landfall in Louisiana ... Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico.) The MR-GO's levees, which make up the easternmost length of the ring of hurricane-protection levees surrounding St. Bernard ...