Katrina makes landfall in Louisiana at 6:10 a.m., but the flooding of residential areas in greater New Orleans ... arm of the Industrial Canal, in the eastern part of Orleans Parish, breach.

How mind-boggling to think that so much Hurricane Katrina history is contained in a ribbed fragment of concrete ... could protect below-sea-level New Orleans neighborhoods from the Big One.

Undoubtedly a tourism hot spot, Canal Street has also become home to two major hospitals and the city’s burgeoning ...