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.

Director Spike Lee's intimate portrait of New Orleans in the wake of the destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina, including interviews with many people involved in the disaster ...

When water is released from a reservoir, it can put levees downstream to the test. And the consequences of levee failure happen fast. By some accounts, 80% of New Orleans was flooded by Hurricane ...

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 ...

Five years ago, Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans ... Orleans' levee system were incomplete and eroding when Katrina hit. The levees were almost 2 feet (61 centimeters) below their original ...

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

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.” ...