Based on the information and images from the articles, fill in the following chart about why New Orleans was so badly damaged compared to the other communities in the Gulf region.

Reason 1: The failure of the levees allowed water to rush into the city. Engineers originally designed the levees to withstand a direct hit from a level three hurricane, but Katrina was a level four hurricane.

Reason 2: New Orleans is a city located below sea level. As a result, any water that made it through the damaged levee inundated the city and was held in place by the remaining levee walls.

Reason 3: New Orleans sits on the Gulf of Mexico coast and is directly between Lake Pontchartrain and the Mississippi River. So, once the levees failed, water rushed into the city, and within 24 hours of Katrina making landfall, 80 percent of New Orleans became flooded.

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Low height from sea level and lack of barrier leads to great damage to New Orleans.

New Orleans was greatly damaged as compared to other communities in the Gulf region because of its low elevation and there is no natural defense in the way natural disasters such as storms etc. New Orleans is present at very low height from the sea level so the natural disasters can easily affected the New Orleans so we can conclude that lower elevation and lack of natural barrier causes more damage to New Orleans.

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