For two seasons, Six Flags New Orleans was a working amusement park east of
the city — Mega Zeph, its signature wooden roller coaster, drew thousands of
riders every weekend.

Then, on August 29th, 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit. Twelve feet of floodwater
submerged the entire park for weeks. It never reopened.

In this documentary, we break down how Jazzland became Six Flags New Orleans,
how a flood-exclusion clause in the park's insurance left the city holding
up to a billion dollars in cleanup liability, fifteen years of failed
redevelopment deals that never got off the ground, and why — twenty years
after the storm — demolition crews are only now tearing down what's left.

This is part of our ongoing series covering the world's most ambitious
abandoned megaprojects and forgotten places — structures built with massive
ambition that never became what they were meant to be.

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0:00 The Park That Time Forgot
0:42 From Swamp to Jazzland
3:46 The Storm That Changed Everything
6:08 Fifteen Years of Failed Proposals
8:18 The Final Demolition Begins

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