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Image Flooding from the failure of the city’s levee system during Hurricane Katrina put four-fifths of New Orleans underwater ... Hurricane Ida battered the Louisiana coast in 2021, leaving ...

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and the failure of parts of the levee system in New Orleans," a summary notes. "Inland effects included high winds and some flooding in the states of AL, MS, FL, TN, KY, IN, OH, and GA." ...

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Hurricane Katrina's fury caused a rise in seawater levels, wind damage and the failure of the New Orleans’ levee system, resulting in more than 1,800 deaths and displacing more than 1 million people.