Blow by Blow

For the Katrina-obsessed, the New Orleans Times-Picayune has published an interactive, animated "flashback" of the hurricane that helps one picture just exactly how the Big Easy flooded. The article that accompanies the map observes that it took just six hours for the storm to penetrate levees that had been built up over 300 years. The dateline, interestingly, is May 14, 2020.