Levees.org to host press conference August 22, 2023 at 10a

Levees.org will hold a press conference marking the 18th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and the federal levee failures. The group will announce its latest campaign. WHEN: Tuesday August 22, 10:00 a.m. WHERE: 5000 Warrington Drive (Site of the Levee Exhibit Hall & Garden) CONTACT: Sandy Rosenthal, Founder, (504) 722-8172 “Engineering schools in the U.S. are not systematically providing instruction to their […]

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Founder Rosenthal featured on the Neon Jazz show

Levees.org founder Sandy Rosenthal was recently featured on the Neon Jazz podcast with Joe Dimino. Rosenthal discusses how her childhood and background prepared her to be a civic mobilizer in her quest to education not just the U.S. but the whole world that the devastation of New Orleans in August 2005 was due to engineering […]

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The Associated Press has issued an alert about the Flooding during Katrina.

The Associated Press (AP) has issued an alert to its reporters all over the world. The alert is a guidance for the precise wording they must use when writing about Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. The guidance dictates that when reporters write about the catastrophic flooding during the 2005 storm, they must note that levee […]

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