New Orleans lies primarily below sea level, relying on its 350-mile long levee system to keep out the waters. Turns out the levee system wasn′t all that reliable. When disaster struck the city in 2005 in the form of Hurricane Katrina, the pressure of the water displaced by the storm was too much for the walls of the levees, cracking them in several places across the system. We all watched the tragedy that followed. Now it′s time for the city to start putting itself back together. In this episode, I travel to New Orleans to see how the crews there worked around the clock to repair the levee breaches before the next hurricane season. In the wake of a deadly disaster and in the face of a looming deadline, the repair work done on the levees was the result of the sheer determination of those who were hit hardest by the storm.
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