Normally, moving to a new house in a new neighborhood is a ... says the ring of the levees before Katrina operated as “a system in name only.” Its weakness, he says, was the result of ...

Residents of New Orleans who live along the 17th Street Canal say that water was leaking from the canal and into their yards months before Hurricane Katrina caused the levee system to collapse.

New Orleans was ordered evacuated last night after levees weakened by Hurricane Katrina gave way and the ... and officials feared it could be months before most would be able to return.

What was New Orleans like before Katrina hit? A: New Orleans was - and ... where the collapse of the federal levees led to floods that overwhelmed homes. Also, tens of thousands of people didn ...

The threat of flooding from another storm remains a top concern in the city, which has a population that's about 80 percent of what it was before ... Katrina to oversee levee work in New Orleans.

of the cost of completing levees and floodwalls on the parish's east bank before August 2005. The money comes from New Orleans property taxes. Following Katrina, the Orleans, East Jefferson and ...

Levee failures near Lake Pontchartrain also flooded New Orleans neighborhoods. After Katrina, the federal government spent $14.5 billion on projects designed to enhance protection from storm surge ...

One year after one of the worst natural disasters in U.S. history, bells tolled in the shattered city, marking the moment when New Orleans' levees ... wave. Katrina grazed Florida before making ...

Fugate, 62, said the success of the New Orleans levees ... of landfall, Katrina was a larger storm, and the power of the surge, the extent of the surge is set about a day before the hurricane ...

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