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Canal Street (French: rue du canal) is a major thoroughfare in the city of New Orleans. Forming the upriver boundary of the city's oldest neighborhood, the French Quarter or Vieux Carré , it served historically as the dividing line between the colonial-era (18th-century) city and the newer American Sector, today's Central Business District .
The 17th Street Canal is the largest and most important drainage canal and is capable of conveying more water than the Orleans Avenue and London Avenue Canals combined. [1] The 17th Street Canal extends 13,500 feet (4,100 m) north from Pump Station 6 to Lake Pontchartrain along the boundary of Orleans and Jefferson parishes. The Orleans Avenue ...
The area of the 9th Ward on the backside of St. Claude Avenue experienced the city's most significant and longest-standing flooding from the New Orleans Hurricane of 1915 due to a break in the protection levee at Florida Avenue. [2] The Industrial Canal was dredged through the neighborhood at the start of the 1920s.
A picture of the well known Bourbon Street in Downtown New Orleans in 1941. In New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, downtown has historically referred to neighborhoods along the Mississippi River, downriver (roughly northeast) from Canal Street – including the French Quarter, Tremé, Faubourg Marigny, Bywater, the 9th Ward, and other ...
A tornado tore through parts of New Orleans and its suburbs Tuesday night, flipping cars, ripping roofs off homes and killing at least one person in a region that was pummeled by Hurricane Katrina ...
Dozens of homes and buildings were destroyed in the blink of an eye as a large tornado tore approximately an 11.5-mile path from around Gretna in Jefferson Parish to Arabi in St. Bernard Parish and
Hurricane Katrina heavily impacted much of the Ward. [11] Lakeview is only some dozen blocks from the notorious breach in the 17th Street Canal. [12] [13] Narrow strips of land at the two ends of the Ward, in the French Quarter by the Riverfront and on some of the higher ground of the Lakeshore, were above the flood waters. [14]
A tornado touched down in the New Orleans area, Louisiana, on Tuesday, March 22.This footage filmed by Reggie Ford, in the immediate aftermath of the tornado, shows severe damage to buildings in ...