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Scarlet Scuttlebutt
September 7, 2008
As people in the 9th Ward, under water as the result of poorly constructed levees, waited for help after
Hurricane Katrina hit, the
US government turned ...
Chicago Tribune
September 7, 2008
Instead, after Katrina, Washington opted for an equally expensive band-aid to repair
New Orleans' levees. The fixes are to be completed in 2011, ...
New York Times
September 7, 2008
Timothy Doody, the president of the levee authority for
New Orleans and the communities along the
Mississippi river's East Bank, said that the images of ...
Newsweek
September 5, 2008
New Orleans's levees held this time around, but
Hurricane Gustav highlights the city's continuing vulnerability. Please fill in the following information ...
Los Angeles Times
September 4, 2008
SmartBrief
September 3, 2008
Although
Hurricane Gustav did not cause major damage or flooding in
New Orleans, the weakened hurricane exposed some flaws in the levee system. ...
San Francisco Chronicle
September 3, 2008
A mostly smooth evacuation from
Hurricane Gustav turned sour Tuesday as many
New Orleans-area residents trying to regain their homes were turned away at ...
KTKA.com
September 3, 2008
New Orleans Mayor
Ray Nagin said he feels really good about the city's improved levee system. "Hopefully we will have everything in order, where we can, ...
Dallas Morning News
September 3, 2008
That's fortunate for
New Orleans. Only about 25 percent of the city's levee system has been improved since 2005 to withstand a 100-year storm, ...
Bloomberg
September 3, 2008
The Australian
September 2, 2008
Gustav hammered
the US Gulf coast with ferocious rain and wind, but the partially rebuilt levees in
New Orleans appeared to be holding. ...
guardian.co.uk
September 2, 2008
A man braves a walk along the Industrial Canal flood wall in
New Orleans. Photograph: Dave Martin/Reuters The partially rebuilt levees in New Orleans have ...
Click 2 Houston.com
September 2, 2008
New Orleans Mayor
Ray Nagin said that may not happen for several days. Meantime, the city's levees are holding. On Monday, a breach in an earthen levee ...
Kansas City Star
September 2, 2008
Kansas City Star
September 2, 2008
As city, state and federal officials began their post-storm assessments amid a hazy, occasionally rainy Tuesday, levee experts cautioned that
New Orleans ...
New York Times
September 2, 2008
The levees in
New Orleans were tested by a heavy storm surge but held, even though the repair and reconstruction work from
Hurricane Katrina, ...
KDRV
September 2, 2008
New Orleans' mayor says he feels 'really good' about his city's improved levee system, which withstood a glancing hit by
Hurricane Gustav. ...
guardian.co.uk
September 2, 2008
But the biggest fear - that the levees surrounding
New Orleans would collapse - did not materialise. As night fell, and curfew went into effect in several ...
Reuters UK
September 2, 2008
... Sept 2 (Reuters) - A still-largely deserted
New Orleans on Tuesday prepared to take stock of damage from
Hurricane Gustav after rebuilt levees appeared ...
Bloomberg
September 2, 2008
Emergency
workers stacked sandbags late yesterday and prevented a storm surge from overwhelming a levee south of
New Orleans. ``We have stopped the bleeding ...
CCTV
September 2, 2008
... the levees and flood walls." As Gustav approached, nearly two million people left coastal
Louisiana on a mandatory evacuation order. While
New Orleans ...
Reuters UK
September 2, 2008
...
Louisiana coast and menacing
New Orleans, where rebuilt levees managed to hold floodwaters out of the city devastated by Katrina three years earlier. ...
Washington Post
September 2, 2008
As the storm made its way inland, federal, state and local officials expressed confidence that the levees protecting
New Orleans would hold, ...
Los Angeles Times
September 2, 2008
The canal's levee walls overflowed in two spots and floodwaters seeped into the low-lying streets of
New Orleans' Upper 9th Ward -- the scene of major ...
Los Angeles Times
September 1, 2008
USA Today
September 1, 2008
He said improvements were made to 70 more miles of the remaining 220 miles of levees. But only 25% of
New Orleans' levee system has been upgraded to ...
Bloomberg
September 1, 2008
The storm left half of
New Orleans without power and its levees mostly intact for now, even after warnings this weekend that Gustav might cause more damage ...
Granma International
September 1, 2008
... where it is expected that flooding caused by the winds will easily overcome the levees that safeguard the area.
New Orleans was desperately preparing to ...
Los Angeles Times
September 1, 2008
New Orleans Mayor
Ray Nagin had declared a mandatory evacuation Saturday, and thousands left the city before the storm hit. Branches were down but there was ...
Telegraph.co.uk
September 1, 2008
Gustav is likely to do most damage to the low-lying Cajun areas west of
New Orleans, where levees are in a poor state of repair and the land has long ...
Bloomberg
September 1, 2008
The
Army Corps of Engineers has stockpiled sandbags to repair any breaches in the
New Orleans levees, said spokesman Bill Irwin. The Corps has worked since ...
guardian.co.uk
September 1, 2008
... it came ashore and did so towards the north and east, pushing the waves directly towards
New Orleans and breaching the levees on the east of the city. ...
Reuters
September 1, 2008
Six inches of water pooled in some streets near the vulnerable
New Orleans Industrial Canal and officials cautioned that while the levees had not been ...
National Geographic
September 1, 2008
The
New Orleans Times-Picayune reported this afternoon that wind-driven water was spilling over the Industrial Canal levee near downtown New Orleans, ...
Times Online
September 1, 2008
Hurricane Gustav crashed on to America's Gulf Coast today sending surging water over the levees protecting
New Orleans. Three boats have been ripped from ...
CNN International
September 1, 2008
Salon
August 31, 2008
However, Katrina, which breached levees and flooded low-lying areas like Lakeview, Gentilly and the Lower 9th Ward, made landfall east of
New Orleans. ...
NPR
August 31, 2008
Huffington Post
August 30, 2008
The hope is that Gustav doesn't prove the fragile repairs of the deeply defective levee and floodwall system in
New Orleans have been repairs in name only, ...
CNN
August 30, 2008
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