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Hurricane Katrina Pictures
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My experience in pictures and words of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Includes photos, stories, photo slide shows, and video on the storm, her aftermath and the continuing reconstruction.
Recent Posts
Using Newspaper to Build Levees
I just ran across an interesting article from 2008 on the Think New Orleans blog entitled Truth Stranger Than Fiction: Army Corps of Engineers Building Levees Out of Newspaper It’s a fascinating and damning story of “maintenance and repai...
Katrina and Homeland Security
On September 1, Rachel Maddow did an extensive interview with the first Secretary of Homeland Security, Tom Ridge. The total interview was 31 minutes long and discussed Mr. Ridge’s newly published book, The Test of Our Times. The second segmen...
4th Anniversary–Wake Me Up When September Ends
Four years ago today, Hurricane Katrina made landfall along the Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama Gulf coast. By the end of the first week after the storm, at least a couple of thousand people lost their lives, 1400 in Louisiana alone. I thought t...
Tribeca Film Festival Short: Home
Filmmaker Matt Faust of Louisiana State University looks at Louisiana Post-Katrina: For someone who lives in South Louisiana, “Home” is haunting. We have not recovered sufficiently from the devastation of Katrina, physically or emotional...
Bush’s Katrina Legacy: Delusional
On Monday, January 12, 2009, President Bush had his farewell press conference and talked about the government’s response to Hurricane Katrina. Rachel Maddow reviews Bush’s response and has an exclusive interview with Jed Horne, city edit...
Some Katrina Losses More Valuable Than Gold
One of the biggest things about South Louisiana and New Orleans in particular is our deeply rooted heritage of food and family recipes. One of the most important legacies lost in Katrina were entire family collections of recipes that had been handed ...

