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The Lower Ninth Ward begins flooding extremely rapidly, and a barge drifts through the major part of the breach, breaking ... the earthen levee gives way here. 9. Once the eye of Katrina reaches ...

Five years ago, Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans with a 28-foot (8.5 meter) storm surge and 2 feet (61 centimeters) of rainfall. The water easily breached the city's old levee system in about ...

And the consequences of levee failure happen fast. By some accounts, 80% of New Orleans was flooded by Hurricane Katrina in 2004 due to levee breaches, with water depths reaching 7 feet.