Louisiana Purchase
2019
“The way I think, when you look at this, it's very evident what happened. We have the teleconference where Dr. Max Mayfield, who runs the National Hurricane Center, told President Bush in a teleconference that there's a possibility that a Category 3 hurricane might topple the levee system in New Orleans, and he said thank you and didn't even answer any other questions.
And there have been numerous studies and reports that this was going to happen. So it's not like this just came out of nowhere. The Army Corps of Engineers have been messing around with this levee system for 40 years, and it's still not, after these billion dollars they spent this past year, they're still not safe.”
-Spike Lee
When The Levees Broke
Below is the area most impacted by Hurricane Katrina, the Lower 9th Ward, fourteen years after the storm.