After two years of levee repairs, the Army Corps of Engineers has estimated that there is a 1 in 100 annual chance that about one-third of the city will be flooded with as much as six feet of water. Mouse over the red-outlined regions on the map to see the potential for flooding in four areas of the city, based on the levee protection before Hurricane Katrina and today.
By Nathaniel Vaughn Kelso, Laris Karklis and Seth Hamblin - The Washington Post, June 20, 2007
Coverage of the Storms
The Gulf Coast was hit hard by two massive hurricanes in the fall of 2005.
Washington Post staff writer Christopher Lee and hurricane researcher hurricane researcher Joseph Cione discussed efforts to learn more about how hurricanes behave.
Full Senate Report
Read the Report (pdf) Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs (May 2006)
Special Series
A series chronicling the Larches of New Orleans as they rebuild their lives in the Washington area.
Several hundred evacuees came to the Washington area following Hurricane Katrina. We look at a handful to see how their lives have changed on the first major holiday since the storm.