Hurricane Katrina
Submitted by callmepamela on March 15, 2008
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On August 29th, 2005 Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Gulf Coast and completely leveled homes, and destroyed lives. Although as of today, the city of New Orleans is no longer under water, it still continues to suffer from the wrath of the Category 3 hurricane.
As the eye of the hurricane swept northeast, the city suffered from hurricane conditions for hours, even up to hurricane-force winds of a category 2 hurricane.
Katrina’s storm surge breached 53 levees that were set up to protect the city of New Orleans. The three major levee breaches were at the 17th Street Canal levee, the London Avenue Canal, and the wider Industrial Canal. This shows that the Hurricane Protection Project of New Orleans failed. There have now been many government officials to call for hearings to investigate engineering behind the collapse of the flood protection system. Because...