Hurricane Katrina Floodwall Case Heads To Trial In New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The Army Corps of Engineers is back on trial, seven years after Hurricane Katrina's epic storm surge shredded the flood protection system it had built for New Orleans.www.huffingtonpost.com
The Lessons From Katrina Were painful But Paying Off Huge For New Orleans
In an ominous sign, the Category I hurricane passed through New Orleans seven years to the day after Hurricane Katrina made landfall.www.businessinsider.com
Hurricane Isaac was no Katrina, but the stubborn storm is this generation's Betsy
It has taken a while to sink in, but Hurricane Isaac, which New Orleans sized up as a minimal hurricane not worth running from, has turned out to be the region's new Hurricane Betsy, the storm that two generations before Hurricane Katrina was regarded ...www.nola.com
Hurricane Katrina flooding in Lower 9th Ward, St. Bernard Parish heading to court
It may seem like an academic question. But hundreds of millions of dollars may ride on the answer: Was the Lower 9th Ward in New Orleans flooded during Hurricane Katrina simply because water overtopped floodwalls along the Industrial Canal, causing ...www.nola.com
Kauai marks 20 years after its first 9/11 disaster
While just six lives were lost, in contrast to some 3,000 on 9/11 (and nearly 2,000 due to Hurricane Katrina), Iniki blasted the Garden Island with $1.6 billion in property damages and an incalculable environmental toll.blog.sfgate.com
Louisiana faces limited crop loss after Hurricane Isaac
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita damaged $1.5 billion worth of crops, and the drought brought a $400 million hit, Guidry said. "We feel like we probably dodged a bullet to some extent with this storm," Guidry said.www.lsureveille.com
Five myths about Hurricane Katrina
On Tuesday, almost seven years to the day after Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, Hurricane Isaac made landfall in southeast Louisiana.www.washingtonpost.com
South Slidell's storms teach lessons, offer blessings
It's really hard to believe that our community was affected by Hurricane Isaac on the seventh anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Many homes in south Slidell were flooded, but many homes were spared, partly because of the levee system on U.S. 11.www.nola.com
Supercomputers aid hurricane prep
Researchers at university supercomputing centers in Texas and Louisiana used real-time data to inform emergency workers about what would happen once the hurricane sent water into canals, levies and neighborhoods. When Katrina hit in 2005, tools for ...www.computerworld.com
Hurricane Isaac pounds Louisiana on anniversary of Katrina
NEW ORLEANS - Hurricane Isaac headed inland towards New Orleans as a Category 1 storm on the 7th anniversary of the catastrophic Hurricane Katrina. Early Wednesday water came over a levee in the town of Braithwaite in Plaquemines Parish, Fox ...www.foxnews.com
Five-Time Hurricane Survivor Tells Us Why She Lives In The Danger Zone
Since the age of 3, Martinez, now 50, has seen five different homes destroyed by Mother Nature, first with Hurricane Betsy (1965), then Juan (1985), then George (1998) and Katrina (2005). Though she's been called America's 'Unluckiest Woman,' hers is a ...www.businessinsider.com
Are You Ready? September is National Emergency Preparedness Month.
Washington, DC –Hurricane Isaac could wield a heavy hammer as storm related damages top $1 billion in property damage losses this year.interact.stltoday.com
Hurricane Katrina research goes digital at Emory
... journal of regional studies published by the Emory University Libraries, and the University of Texas Press have partnered to produce an all-digital, multimedia venue for new and emerging scholarship on the ongoing human impact of Hurricane Katrina.vahi.patch.com
New Orleans Museum of Art reopens following Isaac, but basement repairs ...
While the damage from Isaac was minimal, museum officials say the building is about to undergo long-awaited repairs to its basement required due to damage following Hurricane Katrina. New Orleans Museum of Art portrait of museum.jpg Doug Parker / The ...www.nola.com
Talking Pets: Lessons learned from Hurricane Katrina
As Hurricane Isaac bore down on the Louisiana coast on Aug. 29, the comparisons to Katrina were inevitable. After all, it was seven years to the day since the upper Gulf Coast went through the most destructive natural disaster to hit the United States ...www.bradenton.com
Katrina's Lessons in Mississippi May Have Saved Lives in Hurricane Isaac
For all the lives it took when it plowed across the Gulf Coast in 2005, Hurricane Katrina may have saved some during Isaac.www.insurancejournal.com
Ex-lab owner gets jail term for falsifying water test results
PHILADELPHIA - The former owner of a Douglass Township water-testing laboratory was sentenced here Monday to nine months in federal prison for falsifying water test results, including some taken after Hurricane Katrina. Michael J. McKenna, 54, ...readingeagle.com
Emergency preparations put in place by Hays County
"Hurricane Katrina was an unprecedented storm, and because of responses to Katrina, we are better prepared and more ready in giving shelters for evacuees," said Sara Kennedy, regional director of communications for the American Red Cross Central ...star.txstate.edu
Drenched New Orleans passes big post-Katrina test
NEW ORLEANS, Aug 29 (Reuters) - Drenching rains from Hurricane Isaac brought flooding to the U.S. Gulf Coast on Wednesday, but elaborate defenses built to protect New Orleans after it was devastated by Hurricane Katrina seven years ago seemed to ...in.reuters.com
Confessions of a Former Republican
This is the story of how in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina and later in Iraq, I discovered that what I believed to be the full spectrum of reality was just a small slice of it and how that discovery knocked down my Republican worldview.www.truthdig.com
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