PBS24 天
How New Orleans Flooded
1. Katrina makes landfall in Louisiana at 6:10 a.m., but the flooding of residential areas in greater New Orleans actually begins an hour and a half earlier. Between 4:30 and 5 a.m., levees ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency9 年
For New Orleans Jews, Katrina — 10 years on — still fosters communal bond
After the levees were breached on Aug ... who was the federation’s president in the aftermath of Katrina, noted that among New Orleans Jews, “there still is a lingering sense of community ...
BBC14 年
When the Levees Broke
Director Spike Lee's intimate portrait of New Orleans in the wake of the destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina, including interviews with many people involved in the disaster ...
BBC7 年
Harvey v Katrina: Have New Orleans lessons been learned?
New Orleans and the surrounding area were ... Houston city centre over fears they could burst. During Katrina some of the levees designed to protect the city from flooding failed because they ...
PBS6 年
Hurricane Katrina
Making landfall on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans with ... which lessened the protection provided by the city's levees, made New Orleans more vulnerable in 2005.
NOLA.com1 个月
Jay Lapeyre, who oversaw picks of New Orleans area levee board members, steps down
the New Orleans civic and business ... lobbied Congress for post-Katrina rebuilding aid and flood protection improvements; and Sandy Rosenthal, founder of Levees.org, a group created to assure ...
Sky4 年
When the Levees Broke
...In Four Acts. Spike Lee's triple Emmy Award-winning documentary from Spike Lee revisiting the devastation of New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina concludes. (4 of 4 ...
Axios on MSN2 个月
As New Orleans watches Helene aftermath, lessons and memories of Katrina reappear
Why it matters: Recovery is a loaded term, and what we learned after Hurricane Katrina is that ... to collapse," says New ...
New5 天
University of New Orleans Consolidates Administrators, Prepares for Layoffs Amid Budget Crunch
NEW ORLEANS - Facing a $10 million budget shortfall, the University of New Orleans has picked two new interim deans who will ...
NOLA.com1 个月
Gordon Stevens, New Orleans tourism titan who shined light on slow Katrina recovery, dies at 75
Miles Gordon Stevens III, a commanding figure in New Orleans tourism who ran the companies ... took a beating after Hurricane Katrina hit in August 2005. Because visitors weren’t coming, Stevens ...
The New York Times1 个月
New Orleans’ Striking Advantage in the Age of Climate Change
And it will fail to guarantee New Orleans’s long-term survival. The genius of the master plan is that, by building and restoring marshland, levees and ... 14.5 billion post-Katrina flood ...
University of New Orleans braces for more budget cuts: ‘We are still in a crisis’
Facing at least a $10 million budget shortfall, University of New Orleans leadership is preparing to cut $2.2 million in what ...