Senate report estimated the damage at $150 billion. The subsequent flooding left more than 80 percent of the city under water for weeks, destroying thousands of homes and businesses and killing more than 1,570 people in the worst natural disaster to hit the Deep South. It was completed five years after Katrina breached several levees in the New Orleans area. of Engineers along Peters Road to protect the suburban Jefferson Parish community of Harvey, should the Mississippi River again overflow. The 3.5-mile-long structure was built as a safety measure by the U.S. “With the big iron doors, it kind of reminds you of ‘Escape from New York,’ ” said Boomtown general manager Harold Rowland, comparing the Harvey Canal Floodwall to prison walls in the 1981 John Carpenter film. NEW ORLEANS - The most noticeable change in The Big Easy casino market 10 years after Hurricane Katrina is the 14-foot-high concrete-and-steel wall that encircles Boomtown New Orleans. The Boomtown Casino sign is seen through flood walls in New Orleans on Tuesday, Aug.

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