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Title: NAVIGATION CANAL LEVEE BREACHED BY STORM SURGE
Caption: Hurricane Katrina's storm surge flooded through this breach in the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal levee to inundate the New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward. Poor foundation design appears to have been a major cause for the breach. (Vincent Laforet/AP Wide World Photos)
Keywords: atmosphere, hurricanes, winds, floods, flooding, oceans, storm surges