Levee:
What is a levee?
How did this affect Hurricane Katrina?
- Levees are long walls built to prevent water from flooding
- Levees are most commonly made of sand bags or earth stacked up
How did this affect Hurricane Katrina?
- The levees built to protect New Orleans were sometimes not as strong where the poor and African Americans lived
- Some levees broke during Hurricane Katrina which caused major flooding