Hurricane Katrina’s storm surge flooded roughly 80% of New Orleans when multiple levees breached. In this video, Grady of Practical Engineering breaks down the engineering failures that made Katrina’s flooding so bad. In his typical hands-on fashion, he shows the flaws of the I-wall-topped levee design, and he takes the time to detail how the lessons learned from this disaster propagated into safer engineering practices.
Plus, he’s got a book coming out next spring. Congrats, Grady! I can’t wait to pick up my copy. (Video and image credit: Practical Engineering)
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