New Orleans levees sinking: $14 billion flood system faces local weather change, sea degree rise, and finances cuts

This story was initially printed by Grist and is reproduced right here as a part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

It has been 20 years since New Orleans’ defective levee system failed throughout Hurricane Katrina, inflicting a flood that claimed nearly 1,400 lives and inflicted greater than $150 billion in financial harm. The disaster was so unhealthy that some doubted town may live on in any respect — the US Home speaker on the time declared that rebuilding New Orleans “doesn’t make sense” and that a lot of it “might be bulldozed.”