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22 December 2005 view inland from the inner (southern) of the two major breaches in the lower side of the Industrial Canal levee & floodwall into the Lower 9th Ward, one of the more famous of the multiple levee failures which devastated much of the Ward at the time of Hurricane Katrina. The 9th Ward neighborhood was thrust into the nation's ...
Levee breaches in the federally built Hurricane Protection System and the resulting flooding that occurred on August 29, 2005 in the New Orleans vicinity. On Monday, August 29, 2005, there were over 50 failures of the levees and flood walls protecting New Orleans, Louisiana, and its suburbs following passage of Hurricane Katrina.
The Lower Ninth Ward is a neighborhood in the city of New Orleans, Louisiana.As the name implies, it is part of the 9th Ward of New Orleans.The Lower Ninth Ward is often thought of as the entire area within New Orleans downriver of the Industrial Canal; however, the City Planning Commission divides this area into the Lower Ninth Ward and Holy Cross neighborhoods.
Some New Orleans residents and city officials are pushing back against tour operators who bus out-of-towners into the city's Lower 9th Ward, where Hurricane Katrina unleashed a wall of water when ...
"The lower ninth ward is the only part of New Orleans where you still will see Katrina." Burnell Cotlon is a lifelong resident of the Lower 9th Ward in New Orleans and he's become somewhat of a ...
A heavy rain falls on the New Orleans Katrina Memorial the day after the 15th anniversary of the storm. Hurricane Katrina, in August 2005, claimed nearly 1,400 people's lives and caused billions ...
As the Lower 9th Ward was dewatered, ING 4727 at first came to rest atop a number of house sites on the east side of Jourdan Avenue. Hurricane Rita, however, subsequently raised the water level in the Industrial Canal sufficiently to top the still-incomplete levee repairs, reflooding the area and refloating the barge.
Musicians' Village is a neighborhood located in the Upper Ninth Ward in New Orleans, Louisiana.Musicians Harry Connick, Jr. and Branford Marsalis teamed up with Habitat for Humanity International and New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity to create the village for New Orleans musicians who lost their homes to Hurricane Katrina.