Drone video captured today shows the outcome of a massive levee breach south of Pacific Junction. | WHO 13 News

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Two decades after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, flooding 80% of the city and claiming over 1,300 lives, a new study from Tulane University reveals a troubling development: sections of the city’s reinforced levee system are sinking by nearly two inches per year. Researchers, using satellite data from 2002 to 2020, found subsidence not only in wetlands but also in populated neighborhoods and near the airport. Despite nearly $15 billion invested to strengthen flood defenses after Katrin

Hurricane Katrina made landfall 20 years ago today, on August 29, 2005. In the days that followed, failures in the levee system caused catastrophic flooding across the New Orleans metro area. Two months after the storm, HNOC began partnering with local, state, and federal agencies to document the experiences of first responders working on the front lines. The interviews recorded for the Through Hell and High Water Oral History Project capture the disaster’s painful, chaotic, and murky aftermath—