This past weekend, I spent a day walking in the infamous footsteps of the most destructive hurricane in United States history. I spent the day in the Lakeview neighborhood, bounded on the west by the 17th Avenue Canal and the east by the London Avenue Canal.
Of course, the 17th Street Canal was breeched when substandard soils washed out from under the sheet metal pilings, which had not been sunk to a sufficient depth. The walls failed catastrophically along a 200 foot stretch of floodwall and Lake Ponchartrain flowed into the bowl of New Orleans under equilibrium was reached.
Please make sure to click on he photographs as they go by in the slideshow to read my captions.
