New Orleans was ordered evacuated last night after levees weakened by Hurricane Katrina gave way and the roiling waters of Lake Pontchartrain flooded the historic jazz city. “The magnitude of th ...

24, 2006 — -- Documents released today by Congress show that two days before Hurricane Katrina devastated ... taken aback by the fact that the levees did break in so many places and caused ...

And here are my personal feelings about Katrina ... they would break. These reports were overlooked. In my opinion [and I believe] that the levees were deliberately blown up.

Volumes of material written in the wake of hurricane Katrina, including a report ... by an engineering failure that caused the levees to break. We couldn’t control that. The federal government ...

There is now a criminal investigation into the failure of the New Orleans levee system during Hurricane Katrina. With the Louisiana's attorney general leading one of several investigations ...

Are the Levees Going to Break? Three years after Katrina, many wonder if repaired river walls will hold By David Hogarty • Published August 29, 2008 • Updated on August 29, 2008 at 8:18 am ...

The corps acknowledged as much from the start. While it had called its pre-Katrina levees a “hurricane protection system,” it described the post-Katrina project as only a “risk reduction ...

On Aug. 29, Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, causing the levees to break in New Orleans a day later, submerging and devastating the city and leaving thousands of people stranded and ...

A Katrina-like catastrophe was predicted as ... devastating swirl of fury. A dramatic levee break. Geysers bursting through manhole covers. A sleeping city, forced onto the rooftops,” McQueary ...

He would later fly to Atlanta, outside of Katrina's reach ... was warned about floodwaters overrunning the levees, rather than the levees breaking. The day before the storm hit, Bush was told ...

Instead, I'm going to break down the key factors and important values surrounding Katrina that the news media are missing. The levee How many of you out there actually knew what a levee was before ...

Attendees march from the the site of the breach in the Industrial Canal levee in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans to Hunter's Field during the 18th annual commemoration of Hurricane Katrina ...