It has been 20 years since New Orleans‘ faulty levee system failed during Hurricane Katrina, causing a flood that claimed almost 1,400 lives and inflicted more than $150 billion in economic damage.

At his Lakeview home, there's *** levee right there right there and uh if you want, I can open my back gate because you can kind of get *** real feel for how close we are. Alberto Zuniga lived through ...