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With rapidly intensifying hurricanes, New Orleans leaders urge residents to have emergency plans ready
As the 2025 hurricane season approaches, New Orleans leaders reflect on Katrina’s legacy, highlight major storm protection ...
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Anatomy of a flood: How New Orleans flooded during Hurricane Katrina
Click here Editor's note: It's been nearly 10 years since I first visualized Hurricane Katrina's flooding throughout the New Orleans metro area in animated graphic form. The updated version above ...
The Washington Post3y
New Orleans: Then and now photos, 16 years after Katrina
Katrina caused over 1,800 deaths and $100 billion in damage. New Orleans was particularly hit hard due to flooding. The hurricane’s 19-foot storm surge broke through the city’s flood walls and ...
WDAM on MSN7d
A look at New Orleans storm surge defenses 20 years after Hurricane Katrina
In the aftermath of one of history’s biggest engineering failures -- the breaching of levees during Hurricane Katrina -- the ...
New York Daily News9y
‘Katrina: After the Flood’ delivers a balanced and comprehensive account of all those who did wrong — especially former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin
Gary Rivlin, a former New York Times reporter, penned “Katrina: After the Flood.” In 2013, Nagin became the first New Orleans mayor indicted for crimes committed in office. The one thing ...
Mother Jones15y
The New Katrina Flood: Hospital Liability
Three years before Hurricane Katrina inundated New Orleans, a senior executive at ... do we have generators placed to accommodate an emergency flood with 15 feet of water?” ...
PBS5mon
How New Orleans Flooded
Katrina makes landfall in Louisiana at 6:10 a.m., but the flooding of residential areas in greater New Orleans actually ... arm of the Industrial Canal flood Orleans East. Later, around 10 a.m ...
USA Today1mon
Fifteen years and $15 billion since Katrina, New Orleans is more prepared for a major hurricane – for now
NEW ORLEANS – Fifteen years ago this week, a Coast Guard helicopter pulled Webster Rainy from his niece's rooftop in the Lower 9th Ward as floodwaters swallowed his neighbors in the wake of ...
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New Maps Label Much Of New Orleans Out Of Flood Hazard Area
Sponsor Message After Hurricane Katrina, the federal government built the city a $14.5 billion flood protection system. In public hearings and private meetings, New Orleans asked FEMA to factor ...
NOLA.com1d
How Lafitte Greenway transformed from a dump to 'one of the best places' in New Orleans
The $9.1 million linear park built on an old rail line has transformed into an economic and cultural boon in the heart of Mid ...
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No, ‘Levitating’ Manhole Covers Aren’t Real—And They Definitely Don’t Predict Hurricanes
The videos are real—but the storm predictions aren’t. We break down what’s actually happening under New Orleans streets when ...
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Abortion battle delays flood aid for New Orleans amid hurricane fears
He serves on the commission, and when it first considered the city’s flood ... New Orleans. Rainwater was part of Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal’s response and recovery after Hurricane Katrina ...