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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Finger-pointing that began after Hurricane Katrina over who was responsible for maintaining the levees in New Orleans continued at a Senate hearing Thursday. At one point ...
How mind-boggling to think that so much Hurricane Katrina ... levees, pump houses and flood walls to protect the ragged-boot heel of Louisiana. I fully believed in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ...
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN)-- Efforts to bolster a private New Orleans-area levee that had been in danger of failing because of Hurricane ... project began after Katrina, but it is not scheduled ...
When the levees were breached in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, the Ninth Ward was inundated. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted ...
"There's no doubt about it," said one levee manager, quoted in the New Orleans Times-Picayune in 2002. "The biggest factor in hurricane ... celebration the year after Katrina.
It was 19 years ago that Ruthie Frierson led a group of more than 100 -- called “Citizens for One New Orleans” -- which called for massive reform after the levee failures of Katrina.