| Soldiers worked through the night to repair a floodwall that had burst, sending water gushing through the city. |
| The storm surge created by Katrina was massive, the levees failed catastrophically, and officials had neglected floodwall maintenance for decades. |
| A series of murals along the floodwall, painted over the past 15 years by Robert Dafford and a team of artists, depict scenes from Paducah's history. |
| And while Morgan City has a 6-meter floodwall that is expected to protect the town, workers have rushed sandbags into place and shored up levees just in case. |
| The storm pushed water over an 18-mile levee and put so much pressure on it that authorities planned to intentionally puncture the floodwall to relieve the strain. |
| Stretching longer than a football field, the floodwall will be all that stands between downtown DC and inundation. |
