How Hurricane Katrina exposed failures in disaster response and changed FEMA, evacuations, and emergency planning in America.
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America after Katrina: Lessons from New Orleans
Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans on August 29, 2005, ultimately killing roughly 1,800 people and causing massive flooding. Levee failures and infrastructure neglect turned a natural disaster into ...
Twenty years later, Edward Buckles Jr. remembers Katrina − remembers at age 13 having his neighborhood swept away by the hurricane's raging waters, a defining moment of his life that would dislodge ...
Twenty years ago, few people in New Orleans were paying attention to a tropical depression forming over the Bahamas. The Crescent City was enjoying a lazy summer in late August. But within days, that ...
NEW ORLEANS — Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the U.S. Gulf Coast with catastrophic storm surge and flooding, New Orleans marked the storm's anniversary Friday with solemn memorials, ...
NEW ORLEANS— Twenty years ago, Hurricane Katrina changed the face of education in New Orleans forever. The school system was utterly destroyed and then utterly transformed, becoming the first and only ...
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