Industrial Canal Levee on Lower 9th Ward Side Overtops
September 1, 2008 | New Orleans, Louisiana | Vetting explained
Earlier today, anyone remaining in the Lower Ninth Ward would have gotten a scare. The sight of water lapping at the top of the newly rebuilt floodwall, and seeping through openings would have surely brought memories of Katrina, and fears of a new breach ... but most of the residents of the neighborhood had taken buses out of town on Saturday. leaving a handful of hardly journalists to document the event.
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