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The Weather Channel features Levees.org Flooded House Museum

HJ Bosworth Jr. civil engineer and lead researcher for Levees.org talks with The Weather Channel about Levees.org’s Flooded House Museum at the 20th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.

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Levees.org featured in Katrina at 20 story by WDSU

Excellent story by Travers Mackel with WDSU-TV Channel 6.

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Levees.org featured on Fox8 News Noon Show with Liz Reyes

Anchor Liz Reyes invites Levees.org founder Sandy Rosenthal onto her show to discuss Katrina after 20 years. Where are we now?

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Levees.org asks a question. The USACE chooses to non-respond.

In April 2025,  Levees.org discovered in a FOIA request that the Army Corps of Engineers has not graded the New Orleans levee system for 5 years––something done routinely since 1959.

We gave this surprise information to Alex Lubben with The Advocate who questioned the Army Corps about it. We were not satisfied with the Army Corps’ explanation in Mr. Lubben’s story. So on August 21, 2025, we held a press conference.

We asked the Army Corps “does the system meet the requirements for 100-year protection that Congress tasked you to design and build?” The corps has not responded to our question.

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Levees.org featured in The Advocate

In March of 2025, Levees.org filed a record request with the Army Corps of Engineers under the Freedom of Information Act.

We wanted to know the corps ratings for the FPA-East and West’s levee maintenance. 

This is something the Army Corps of Engineers has done every year since 1959 – grade the local district’s maintenance.

We were shocked to find the corps has not issued a rating for five years. We gave the story to Alex Lubben as an exclusive. You can see the story here.

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Fox Weather to feature Levees.org’s Flooded House Museum in documentary

Fox Weather documentary

Fox News Media’s free streaming weather network Fox Weather will debut a multipart documentary on Hurricane Katrina in late August, timed to coincide with the 20-year anniversary of the storm.

The first installment will air on August 25, and revists when Hurricane Katrina made landfall in New Orleans. Fox Weather hurricane specialist Bryan Norcross, correspondent Robert Ray will cover the chain of events that followed, including federal levee failures and critical decisions that turned a natural disaster into an urban catastrophe.

Founder Sandy Rosenthal and Levees.org’s Flooded House Museum will be featured in the fourth and final episode.

Fox Weather is available on most popular free, ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) platforms, including Plex, Pluto TV, The Roku Channel, Xumo Play, Samsung TV Plus, Sling Freestream, Vizio WatchFree Plus and LG Channels.

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Twenty years of LeveesOrg in a Two-minute Show

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Founder Rosenthal’s OpEd on Levee Board Dysfunction featured in The Lens

Not many are familiar with the duties of a public board.

So founder Sandy Rosenthal penned an Opinion Piece to help the general public understand why the departing levee board chair’s penchant for spending time with staff was not a good thing.

And might even be dangerous since the board is responsible for operating the largest flood-protection system in the United States.

Red flags at the levee board

 

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Rudy Vorkapic: Life in New Orleans one month before the flood

Local celebrity Rudy Vorkapic––creator of “The Levee” newspaper––and founder Sandy Rosenthal talk about what New Orleans and the nation was like One Month Prior to Hurricane Katrina and the flood. Check it out on our podcast The Slingshot From Levees.org

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-14-one-month-prior/id1779795344?i=1000719869410

For those who prefer a video, you can go here.

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Founder Rosenthal is featured on WWL TV Morning News

Levees.org founder Sandy Rosenthal talks with Anchorman Mike McDaniel with WWLTV at the 20th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.

Sandy and Mike discuss Levees.org’s accomplishments in the past 20 years, the state of the new system built by the Army Corps of Engineers and upcoming special events.

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