A VAR's Katrina Tale

Rebuilding The Lakeview
Rebuilding The Lakeview

A house in the Lakeview district is just being completed three-and-a-half years after the storm. Notice the house is built on pilings to allow the structure to continue standing despite flooding at lower levels. Water covered the area where this house now stands when the 17th Street Canal levee failed. The levee failure ranks among one of the worst engineering disasters of all time.

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