its reliance on lessons learned from Hurricane Betsy in 1965 and old-fashioned American can-doism meant New Orleans was securely fortified. That the federally funded flood walls looked unsafe and ...

Katrina makes landfall in Louisiana at 6:10 a.m., but the flooding ... New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico.) The MR-GO's levees, which make up the easternmost length of the ring of hurricane ...

The bill, introduced by a freshman lawmaker from Plaquemines Parish, would require one of the flood agency's board members to ...

A fourth board member at the New Orleans area levee ... they also leave the flood control agency at risk of being paralyzed and unable to act with the start of hurricane season just weeks away.

NEW ORLEANS — Hurricane season is approaching with major challenges at the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East. The authority is responsible for a complex system of levees ...

The storm formed over the Caribbean and is poised to become a “rare Gulf November hurricane,” Payton Malone, a meteorologist in New Orleans ... Minor coastal flooding is possible in Jamaica ...

It was the storm long feared in a city situated on the vulnerable Gulf Coast, with many areas built below sea level. Making landfall on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans with ...