New Orleans Levees Hold; Flash Floods Seen in Tennessee Valley
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The levees held and the party in New Orleans never stopped, banishing, in part, the ghost of Hurricane Katrina.
Tropical Storm Lee poured as much as 11 inches (28 centimeters) of rain, testing a new drainage and pumping system to protect the city from flooding following $10 billion of repairs after Katrina struck Louisiana in Aug. 2005.