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New Orleans levee failures
Professor Ivor Van Heerden of the LSU Hurricane Center creates a forensic time map that records when New Orleans levees failed during Hurricane Katrina. He uses stopped clocks to create his map, which is needed to work out what storm conditions caused the levee failures.
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