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20 Years After Katrina, a Film Series Reclaims New Orleans
Twenty years ago, on Aug. 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana, killing approximately 1,833 people and displacing millions along the Gulf Coast. Eighty percent of New Orleans was underwater, leaving families stranded on rooftops or funneled into overcrowded shelters without food and water.
20 years after Katrina, New Orleans’ levees are sinking and short on money
It has been 20 years since New Orleans’ faulty levee system failed during Hurricane Katrina, causing a flood that claimed almost 2,000 lives and inflicted more than $150 billion in economic damage. The catastrophe was so bad that some doubted the city could continue to exist at all — the U.
On05, Hurricane Katrina slammed ashore on the Gulf Coast, inflicting severe damage in New Orleans and along the coastlines of ...
The catastrophic Category 4 storm, which made landfall on August 29, 2021, left a wake of destruction and a vicious cycle of skyrocketing insurance premiums.
“Our city is in what is often described locally as a bowl,” said James Karst, director of communications for the Coalition to ...
New Orleans after Katrina is a cautionary tale for every place in America that will one day face its own disaster.
Four residents recall the passage of the 2005 storm, which left 1,400 people dead and caused extensive property damage, and ...
NEW YORK (WABC) -- There are dozens of local first responders who have recently arrived in Louisiana and more are on the way in the wake of Hurricane Ida. Forty Con Edison crews from New York ...
It would ravage New Orleans while displacing countless residents. Hurricane Ida is looking eerily like a dangerous sequel to 2005's Hurricane Katrina, the costliest storm in American history ...
Administered through FHLB Dallas member institutions, DRA provides grants for the repair, rehabilitation and reconstruction of owner-occupied housing affected by disaster events in federally declared ...
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Twenty Years After Hurricane Katrina, Many of Us Are Still Missing All That We Lost—and Grappling With One of the Country’s Worst Disasters
In Louisiana, heat and hurricanes can feel like a generational curse. After two decades, an editor who grew up in the state ...
A number of events this week in New Orleans will commemorate the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and the federal levee ...
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