In hardest slam since Katrina, New Orleans’s levees stand firm

The winds have been fierce, the water appeared infinite and the entire metropolis went darkish, however 16 years after a historic failure of New Orleans’s defenses in opposition to catastrophe, the levees held. When Hurricane Ida whipped by on Sunday evening, America’s most weak metropolis, half of which sits under sea stage, was not inundated.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nationwide/in-hardest-slam-since-katrina-new-orleanss-levees-stand-firm/2021/08/30/4ca6322e-09b0-11ec-a6dd-296ba7fb2dce_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_national | In hardest slam since Katrina, New Orleans’s levees stand agency