20 years after Katrina, New Orleans’s levees are sinking and short on money
via nbcnews.com
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It has been 20 years since New Orleans’ faulty levee system failed during Hurricane Katrina, causing a flood that claimed almost 2,000 lives and inflicted more than $150 billion in economic damage. The catastrophe was so bad that some doubted the city could continue to exist at all — the U.S. Speaker of the House […]