Hurricane Katrina: The Drive: New Orleans Lower 9th Ward

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The Times-Picayune created the following interactive graphics to show how the city flooded:

Flash Flood:

Chronology of Flooding:

http://www.nola.com/katrina/graphics/flashflood.swf

Continuous:

http://www.nola.com/katrina/graphics/continuous.swf

Maximum Standing Floodwater Levels:

http://www.nola.com/katrina/graphics/depths.swf

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The $41 billion restoration of the city's hallmark abandoned buildings, shacks, vacant lots, and standing trash piles was among the most complex and painstaking ever undertaken. Starting just four weeks after the August 2005 hurricane, workers recovered millions of pieces of flood-damaged debris, cleaned them of sediments and chemicals, and then replaced them where they were originally found.

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