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Hurricane Betsy floods the Ninth Ward
September 9, 1965
Lower Ninth Ward, New Orleans
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The first hurricane to cause a billion dollars of damage, drowning the Lower Ninth when the Industrial Canal levees gave way. A persistent belief that the levees were dynamited to save wealthier districts shaped distrust that resurfaced forty years later.
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