"Where those cars are going over that little bridge down there where those lights is where the floodwall is.

VOA: special.2010.01.22

During Katrina, the storm surge coming up the Intracoastal Waterway destroyed a 4, 000-foot long floodwall.

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Those errors led to levee and floodwall collapses that destroyed much of New Orleans when Katrina hit seven years ago.

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Days ago bused-in prison inmates worked shoulder to shoulder with the National Guard and local volunteers to build a makeshift floodwall of sand and gravel.

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