Many forum members were in the path of Hurricane Katrina. With the 20th anniversary coming up, it is a good time to think about what happened and see different people's perspectives on the disaster through their images. This image was taken on the lower river, about 20 miles south of New Orleans (as the crow flies) on the east side of the river. The storm surge from the Gulf lifted the house off its foundation and floated it west toward the river. It caught in this tree as the water fell. Ruth St. is one block and the story is that the house belonged to Ruth.
Other buildings were washed to the top of the Mississippi River Levee and left there when the water went down. The hurricane raised the level of the Mississippi River in New Orleans by 12 feet. If the river had been high when the Hurricane hit, it would have overtopped the levees and catastrophically flooded the areas of New Orleans which were not flooded by the storm surge. This might have eroded the river levee and allowed the Mississippi to scour the city. There have been several times since Katrina when the river has been in flood well into hurricane season.
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