Katrina Hits: New Orleans Levees Break, City Drowns
Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast with a Category 3 landfall that triggered catastrophic levee failures in New Orleans. Eighty percent of the city flooded as water lingered for weeks, creating the worst civil engineering disaster in U.S. history. This collapse prompted a federal lawsuit against the Army Corps of Engineers and forced the resignation of FEMA director Michael D. Brown alongside other officials.
August 29, 2005
21 years ago
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