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Jails and prisons often fail to protect incarcerated people during natural disasters

The United States has almost 2 million people behind bars in prisons, jails and detention centers – the largest such population in any country. Although incarcerated people are locked away from the outside world, they are even more vulnerable to the impacts of disasters, such as hurricanes and wildfires, than…

The Conversation

New Orleans Six Flags that closed in wake of Hurricane Katrina is finally being demolished

The park opened in 2000 just off Interstate 10 as Jazzland Theme Park, but it went bankrupt in two seasons

The Independent UK

A former Six Flags park is finally being demolished after Hurricane Katrina's devastation

New Orleans’ former Six Flags theme park, which shuttered in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, is finally coming down

The Independent UK

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Disaster restoration company Belfor cleaned up after 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina—and its billionaire CEO says it's 'ready' for post-election civil war

“Of course, we would first hope nothing happens, but we are prepared to do whatever we're called upon to do,” says CEO Sheldon Yellen

Fortune

“Imagine the dirtiest Les Paul on the planet, but even worse”: Jared James Nichols is reviving a storm-destroyed Gibson – a 1975 Custom that was being played when its original owner died

The vintage instrument was ravaged by hurricane Katrina, after it had been put in storage for decades following the tragic death of its first owner

Guitar World

“Technical bass players might be able to spell it out in print, but if the pocket isn’t there, it’s just dots on paper”: The Meters’ George Porter Jr on surviving Hurricane Katrina, the subtleties of New Orleans funk and his unusual slap style

According to George Porter Jr., his job as a bassist is to tie the groove and the rhythm together

Guitar World

Hurricane Katrina victim identified using DNA technology nearly 20 years after devastating storm

Tonette Waltman Jackson was swept away by floodwaters after her house was torn in half during devastating 2005 storm

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Mother convicted of killing malnourished baby by giving him cow’s milk could have life sentence commuted

Tiffany Woods, now 43, is serving a life sentence for second-degree murder after giving cow’s milk to her malnourished baby in 2005 as the family fled from Hurricane Katrina

The Independent UK

Fox News criticised for using disgraced ex-FEMA head to attack Biden’s response to Hawaii wildfires

Social media users were quick to call back to the Hurricane Katrina era

The Independent UK

Reed Timmer Recounts His Top 5 Most Memorable Hurricane Interceptions

Extreme meteorologist Reed Timmer has spent over 25 years tracking and intercepting hurricanes in addition to hunting tornadoes.

Zenger

The reason a huge navy ship was docked in Cardiff

The ship was previously involved in the response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005

Wales Online

The Democrats botched the Ohio disaster response – and handed Trump a victory

The failure of Pete Buttigieg, the US secretary of transportion, to appear for nearly three weeks recalls the incompetence of Fema during Hurricane Katrina

The Guardian - US

Sold an American Dream, these workers from India wound up living a nightmare

After Hurricane Katrina in 2006, hundreds of workers from India were promised jobs in what labor organizer Saket Soni calls "one of the largest cases of forced labor in modern U.S. history."

WEKU

Half of community moved after Katrina

After Hurricane Katrina devastated St. Bernard Parish, many residents didn’t receive enough money to rebuild

Salon

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The Conversation

Disasters like Hurricane Ian can affect academic performance for years to come

When leaders at a middle school in New Orleans asked me to help students who were struggling after the city had been struck by Hurricane Katrina, we didn’t see eye to eye.

Tribune News Service

NFL: Bucs-Chiefs game on for Raymond James Stadium on Sunday

Tom Brady remembers playing NFL games after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina and Sept. 11.

Salon

How are the babies of Hurricane Katrina?

HBO's "Katrina Babies" director Edward Buckles Jr. told Salon how Hurricane Katrina changed his life when he was 12

Salon

Jackson is a current Hurricane Katrina

Like Hurricane Katrina and Flint, Michigan, systemic racism fueled Jackson’s water crisis

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The Independent UK

Children of climate change come of age in 'Katrina Babies'

A new documentary, “Katrina Babies,” looks at how a generation of New Orleans residents coming of age after Hurricane Katrina, are reconciling with the catastrophic storm that transformed their lives

The Conversation

Brad Pitt's apparently defunct foundation reached a $20.5 million settlement with Hurricane Katrina survivors over its green housing debacle

The six homeowners who sued Brad Pitt’s Make It Right Foundation over the faulty construction of housing it built for them have reached a US$20.5 million settlement with the apparently defunct charity.

The Guardian - US

‘I didn’t understand my trauma’: how Hurricane Katrina marked New Orleans’ young

In powerful documentary Katrina Babies, the children and teenagers who lived through the 2005 disaster grapple with their trauma at an older age

The Independent UK

Brad Pitt foundation reaches settlement over Louisiana homes

Brad Pitt’s Make It Right Foundation and homeowners of the houses built by the program, in an area of New Orleans hit hard by Hurricane Katrina have reached a more than $20 million settlement

Chicago Tribune

Review: ‘Five Days at Memorial’ dramatizes just how bad it got for a New Orleans hospital after Hurricane Katrina

Did Dr. Anna Pou, a surgeon at what was then known as Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans, get “Sully”-ed? Was she a valiant physician undeserving of attacks on her ethical character and crisis management? Or, in the cruel aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, did she cross every known ethical, medical…

Inverse

2022 hurricane season: Why it could be the worst since Hurricane Katrina

This year, the Loop Current looks remarkably similar to the way it did in 2005, the year Hurricane Katrina crossed the Loop Current before devastating New Orleans.

The Independent UK

17 years post-Katrina, New Orleans-area protections complete

Seventeen years after Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans, the Army Corps of Engineers has completed an extensive system of floodgates, strengthened levees and other protections

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