#Katrina10 Info Sheet
Timeline
Sunday
8/28
Mayor Nagin
issues mandatory
evacuation
Monday
8/29
Katrina makes
landfall in early
morning
Tuesday
8/30
Major flooding
occurs as levees
break
Wednesday 8/31
1,400 police
officers ordered
to cease rescues,
focus on looters
Thursday
9/1
45,000 people
stranded at
Superdome area
Friday
9/2
National Guard
troops and
supplies arrive at
Superdome area
Saturday
9/3
Evacuations of
Superdome area
continue
Coast Guard is rescuing 33,500 people throughout the week; almost half of local Coast Guard members lost their own homes
Maps of New Orleans, LA (NOLA)
Levees of New Orleans
Diagrams from the Army Corps of Engineers show planned
repairs for a levee in New Orleans East in 2006.
Key
1) Concrete armoring — to prevent erosion
2) Splash pad — to prevent scour caused by water overtopping
levee walls
3) Sheet pile — will be 34 feet longer and 32.5 feet deeper to
provide more stability and better seepage control
4) An H-pile — for enhanced stability
5) L-Wall — 1.5 feet higher in elevation