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2 | Catalog | National Archives Catalog | NARA's Digital Catalog of Hurricane Katrina Records | 41,000+ government records regarding Hurricane Katrina including photographs, maps, videos, data files, and textual records digitally available to access online | 2005-Present | archive - .jpg (40,000+ items) / .pdf (350+ items) / .doc (20+ items) / .ppt (10+ items) / .tiff (5+ items) / .txt (4+ items) / .mp4 (4+ items) | https://catalog.archives.gov/search?availableOnline=true&page=1&q=hurricane%20katrina | HOW TO USE THE ARCHIVES CATALOG: https://unwritten-record.blogs.archives.gov/2024/05/02/celebrating-the-221st-anniversary-of-the-louisiana-purchase-with-special-media/ | ||||||||||||||||||
3 | Statistics | National Weather Service | Extremely Powerful Hurricane Katrina Leaves a Historic Mark on the Northern Gulf Coast: A Killer Hurricane Our Country Will Never Forget | Statistics and data about the natural destruction of Hurricane Katrina | August 2005- Updated September 2022 | webpage | https://www.weather.gov/mob/katrina#:~:text=In%20all%2C%20Hurricane%20Katrina%20was,moved%20into%20the%20central%20Bahamas. | |||||||||||||||||||
4 | Statistics | Britannica | Hurricane Katrina: 2005 | "Article written and fact-checked by the editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica" | 2005- Updated May 13, 2024 | webpage | https://www.britannica.com/event/Hurricane-Katrina | |||||||||||||||||||
5 | Resource Guide | George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum | Material at the George W. Bush Presidential Library Pertaining To Hurricane Katrina | "This guide includes the principle files at the George W. Bush Presidential Library that contain material relating to Hurricane Katrina that have been processed and are available for research. It is not definitive, however, and researchers should consult with the Library's archivists about other potentially useful files. This guide identifies materials that have been opened for research through systematic processing or under a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. Check the George W. Bush Presidential Library website, as it is constantly updated with new finding aids and digitized content. If records are available digitally, a link has been provided." | Updated July 30, 2022 | https://www.georgewbushlibrary.gov/sites/default/files/2022-07/ResearchGuideHurricaneKatrinaJuly2022.pdf | ||||||||||||||||||||
6 | Statistics | Data Center Research | Facts for Features: Katrina Impact | "A brief summary of the data on deaths, displaced residents, damages, and recovery funding." | August 14, 2013 | webpage | https://www.datacenterresearch.org/data-resources/katrina/facts-for-impact/ | |||||||||||||||||||
7 | Research | American Medical Association | Hurricane Katrina Deaths, Louisiana, 2005 | "Objective: Hurricane Katrina struck the US Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005, causing unprecedented damage to numerous communities in Louisiana and Mississippi. Our objectives were to verify, document, and characterize Katrina-related mortality in Louisiana and help identify strategies to reduce mortality in future disasters. Methods: We assessed Hurricane Katrina mortality data sources received in 2007, including Louisiana and out-of-state death certificates for deaths occurring from August 27 to October 31, 2005, and the Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team’s confirmed victims’ database. We calculated age-, race-, and sex-specific mortality rates for Orleans, St Bernard, and Jefferson Parishes, where 95% of Katrina victims resided and conducted stratified analyses by parish of residence to compare differences between observed proportions of victim demographic characteristics and expected values based on 2000 US Census data, using Pearson chi square and Fisher exact tests. Results: We identified 971 Katrina-related deaths in Louisiana and 15 deaths among Katrina evacuees in other states. Drowning (40%), injury and trauma (25%), and heart conditions (11%) were the major causes of death among Louisiana victims. Forty-nine percent of victims were people 75 years old and older. Fifty-three percent of victims were men; 51% were black; and 42% were white. In Orleans Parish, the mortality rate among blacks was 1.7 to 4 times higher than that among whites for all people 18 years old and older. People 75 years old and older were significantly more likely to be storm victims (P .0001). Conclusions: Hurricane Katrina was the deadliest hurricane to strike the US Gulf Coast since 1928. Drowning was the major cause of death and people 75 years old and older were the most affected population cohort. Future disaster preparedness efforts must focus on evacuating and caring for vulnerable populations, including those in hospitals, long-term care facilities, and personal residences. Improving mortality reporting timeliness will enable response teams to provide appropriate interventions to these populations and to prepare and implement preventive measures before the next disaster. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2008;:1–1)" | August 28, 2008 | https://ldh.la.gov/assets/docs/katrina/deceasedreports/KatrinaDeaths_082008.pdf | ||||||||||||||||||||
8 | Statistics | National Weather Service | Hurricane Katrina - A Look Back 15 Years Later | "Hurricane Katrina was the costliest and one of the deadliest hurricanes to strike the United States in recorded history. Katrina's destruction wasn't limited to just Louisiana and Mississippi with damage reported as far east as the Florida Panhandle due to the large wind field and storm surge associated with the hurricane. In all, Hurricane Katrina was responsible for 1,833 fatalities and caused $108 billion in damage [unadjusted 2005 dollars]." | August 2020 | webpage | https://www.weather.gov/lix/katrina_anniversary | |||||||||||||||||||
9 | Statistics | US Census Bureau | Facts for Features: Hurricane Katrina 10th Anniversary: Aug. 29, 2015 | Census Bureau statistics 10 years later | August 29, 2015 | webpage | https://www.census.gov/newsroom/facts-for-features/2015/cb15-ff16.html | |||||||||||||||||||
10 | Research | National Center for Biotechnology Information | Environmental Public Health Impacts of Disasters: Hurricane Katrina: Workshop Summary | "3. Hurricane Katrina: Challenges for the Community" | 2007 | books | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK54237/ | |||||||||||||||||||
11 | Statistics | History.com | Hurricane Katrina: 10 Facts About the Deadly Storm and Its Legacy | Videos and other visual resources: "The 2005 hurricane and subsequent levee failures led to death and destruction—and dealt a lasting blow to leadership and the Gulf region." | August 19, 2020- Updated August 23, 2023 | webpage | https://www.history.com/news/hurricane-katrina-facts-legacy | |||||||||||||||||||
12 | Statistics | Insurance Information Institute | Infographic: Hurricane Katrina 10 Years Later | "A look back at the costliest hurricane in US history" | 2015 | https://www.iii.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/katrina10_infographic_print.pdf | ||||||||||||||||||||
13 | Research | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | Tropical Cyclone Report: Hurricane Katrina | NOAA Tropical Cyclone damage report | 2005 - Updated 2006, 2011, 2023 | https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL122005_Katrina.pdf | ||||||||||||||||||||
14 | Research | National Ocean Service | Hurricane Katrina: Ten Years Later | "Ten years after Hurricane Katrina, we talk with two pollution responders from NOAA's Office of Response and Restoration who were working in Louisiana after the storm. View transcript, download episode, and get show notes here." | 2015 | .mp3, webpage | https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/podcast/aug15/dd62-katrina.html | |||||||||||||||||||
15 | Statistics | Louisiana Department of Health | Deaths Directly Caused by Hurricane Katrina | "Objective: Previous studies have used multiple death databases to estimate the death toll of Louisiana residents from Hurricane Katrina; however, these studies did not incorporate autopsy reports as a data source" | https://ldh.la.gov/assets/oph/Center-PHCH/Center-CH/stepi/specialstudies/2014PopwellRatard_KatrinaDeath_PostedOnline.pdf | |||||||||||||||||||||
16 | Statistics | United States Geological Survey | Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA | "Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center - Earthshots" | webpage | https://eros.usgs.gov/earthshots/hurricane-katrina-new-orleans-louisiana-usa | ||||||||||||||||||||
17 | Research | US Bureau of Labor Statistics | Hurricane Katrina evacuees: who they are, where they are, and how they are faring | "Questions added to the Current Population Survey from October 2005 to October 2006 addressed the issue of how Katrina evacuees have fared" | 2005-2006 | https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2008/03/art3full.pdf | ||||||||||||||||||||
18 | Reports | New England Journal of Medicine | Unexpected Necessities — Inside Charity Hospital | "Audio Interview with Dr. Ruth Berggren on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina at the Charity Hospital in New Orleans. 7m 15s" | October 13, 2005 | .mp3, webpage | https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp058239 | |||||||||||||||||||
19 | Reports | History.com | I Was There: Hurricane Katrina: Heroes of Charity Hospital | "Charity Hospital was one of the last hospitals to be evacuated after Hurricane Katrina hit. After five days without power or assistance, the staff of Charity took matters into their own hands — including orchestrating a risky roof evacuation — to care for their patients." | August 20, 2015 | .mp4, webpage | https://www.history.com/topics/natural-disasters-and-environment/i-was-there-hurricane-katrina-heroes-of-charity-hospital-video | |||||||||||||||||||
20 | Reports | New Orleans Historical Society | Charity Hospital | "Paper Monument Project #025: Charity was the second-oldest continually operating public hospital in the country." | 2018 | visual art, webpage | https://neworleanshistorical.org/items/show/1438 | |||||||||||||||||||
21 | Reports | NPR | Sold an American Dream, these workers from India wound up living a nightmare | "These workers were promised green cards following Hurricane Katrina. Instead they were issued temporary visas that bound them to a single employer." | 2023 | .mp3, webpage | https://www.npr.org/2023/01/23/1150684455/human-trafficking-katrina-india-great-escape-saket-soni | |||||||||||||||||||
22 | Statistics | Human Trafficking Institute | Hurricanes & Human Trafficking: Natural Disasters Highlight the Vulnerability of America’s Farm Workers | "at least 3,750 persons [were] identified as potential victims of human trafficking into the Gulf Coast region in the post-Katrina period.” | 2020 | webpage | https://traffickinginstitute.org/hurricanes-human-trafficking-natural-disasters-highlight-the-vulnerability-of-americas-farm-workers/ | |||||||||||||||||||
23 | Research | Anti-Trafficking Review | Reflections from the Field: Disparate responses to labour exploitation in post-Katrina Louisiana | "ABSTRACT: Hurricane Katrina was a devastating natural disaster that changed the landscape of the United States’ Gulf Coast. This was followed by a human-made disaster of failed policies, poor governmental oversight, and rampant labour abuse. This article compares how the anti-trafficking and labour rights movements responded to the widespread labour abuse following Katrina. It examines how the worker rights movement responded to systemic issues impacting labourers, and explores the anti-trafficking movement’s criminal justice response to severe forms of exploitation. It shows how the anti-trafficking movement failed to adequately address severe forms of labour abuse, as opposed to the more successful organising efforts of the worker rights movement. The article concludes by considering how the two movements may respond to conditions of labour exploitation emerging as a result of a new disaster impacting workers in Louisiana: the COVID-19 pandemic." | 2020 | webpage | https://www.antitraffickingreview.org/index.php/atrjournal/article/view/487/377 | |||||||||||||||||||
24 | Reports | The White House Archives | Chapter 5: Lessons Learned | George W. Bush: "This government will learn the lessons of Hurricane Katrina. We are going to review every action and make necessary changes so that we are better prepared for any challenge of nature, or act of evil men, that could threaten our people." | 2005 | webpage, archive | https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/reports/katrina-lessons-learned/chapter5.html | |||||||||||||||||||
25 | Statistics | HurricaneScience.org | Hurricane Katrina Case Study | Hurricane Katrina: Science and Society - Meteorology, Forecasting, and Impacts | webpage | https://hurricanescience.org/history/studies/katrinacase/index.html | ||||||||||||||||||||
26 | Reports | Council on Foreign Relations | Katrina at 10: Reflections on a Human-Made Disaster | "The flooding of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina was a human-made disaster, not a natural one. The flood-protection system for the city had been poorly designed and maintained. It also turned out that a series of waterway engineering decisions to try to contain the flow of the Mississippi River and to facilitate river navigation to and from the Gulf of Mexico, were badly out of sync with the region’s ecosystem. In short, it was a failure of critical infrastructure at multiple levels that nearly doomed one of America’s major cities. Ten years later, what happened to New Orleans should serve as a forceful reminder of the costly consequences of hubris, denial, and neglect. Sadly, though, this attitude continues to characterize the relationship Americans have with their built and natural environments." | 2015 | webpage | https://www.cfr.org/blog/katrina-10-reflections-human-made-disaster | |||||||||||||||||||
27 | Research | American Journal of Public Health | The Environmental Health Impact of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans | "We identify Katrina’s major health and environmental impacts on New Orleans and their enduring effects. The major categories of Katrina’s environmental legacies included population relocation, abandoned neighborhoods, floodwaters and sediments, solid wastes and landfills, infrastructure damages, microbiological effects, and coastal land losses." | 2015 | https://sph.lsuhsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/ENHS-ajph.2020.305809.pdf | ||||||||||||||||||||
28 | Reports | AmericanProgress.org | Hurricane Katrina’s Health Care Legacy | "Tragically, the federal government’s health policy response failed to rise to the level of need in the Gulf Coast region. Although the Bush administration had approved a temporary Medicaid expansion after the 9/11 attacks to ensure that low-income survivors were covered, it rejected a similar approach after Katrina and maintained restrictive eligibility rules. As a result, thousands of uninsured evacuees who attempted to sign up for coverage were turned away in their moments of greatest need." | 2015 | webpage | https://www.americanprogress.org/article/hurricane-katrinas-health-care-legacy/ | |||||||||||||||||||
29 | Research | Journal of Black Studies | Survival and Death in New Orleans: An Empirical Look at the Human Impact of Katrina | ABSTRACT: "Hurricane Katrina has been interpreted as both a "metaphor" for the racial inequality that characterizes urban America and as a purely "natural" disaster that happened to strike a predominantly Black city. To resolve these conflicting interpretations, the author analyzes data on New Orleans residents who died during Katrina in an effort to provide an empirical look at the groups most directly affected by the hurricane. Contrary to prior reports in the popular press, the author finds that the impact of the storm was felt most acutely by the elderly population in New Orleans and by Blacks, who were much more likely to die than would be expected given their presence in the population. Data on the locations of recovered bodies also show that Katrina took its largest toll in New Orleans's Black community. These findings confirm the impression that race was deeply implicated in the tragedy of Katrina." | 2007 | journals | https://www.jstor.org/stable/40034319 | |||||||||||||||||||
30 | Statistics | The Mississippi Encyclopedia | Environmental Impact of Hurricane Katrina | "While Hurricane Katrina had a number of short-term ecological effects, the longer-term impacts will be under investigation for years to come. Many of the initial effects will likely be short-lived, but in some coastal systems storm effects may have pushed ecosystems past a threshold, resulting in extensive and potentially irreversible damage." | 2017 - Updated 2019 | webpage | https://mississippiencyclopedia.org/entries/environmental-impact-of-hurricane-katrina/ | |||||||||||||||||||
31 | Reports | Natural Hazards Center | Katrina's Children: An Analysis of Educational Outcomes among Displaced Children in Colorado | "What have displaced children’s and youth’s experiences been with schooling in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina?" | https://hazards.colorado.edu/uploads/basicpage/richardson.pdf | |||||||||||||||||||||
32 | Reports | The Urban Institute | Young Children after Katrina: A Proposal to Heal the Damage and Create Opportunity in New Orleans | "What were the consequences of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath for the young children of New Orleans, particularly those who started out the furthest behind? What does the evidence suggest about effective large-scale interventions for young children that could successfully reverse the damage and fit into the uncertain timetable of families’ return to New Orleans? And what specific plan for young children should be incorporated into the rebuilding of New Orleans?" | 2006 | https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/51041/900920-Young-Children-after-Katrina.PDF | ||||||||||||||||||||
33 | Reports | The Harvard Gazette | Lessons from Katrina on how pandemic may affect kids | "Hurricane Katrina caused widespread destruction and more than 1,800 deaths in 2005, much of it in New Orleans. Though a tragedy, psychologists recognized the storm and its aftermath provided an opportunity to better understand the impact such calamities have on children. One such study was conducted by Harvard researchers under lead author Katie McLaughlin, the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, and senior author Ronald Kessler, Harvard Medical School’s McNeil Family Professor of Health Care Policy. It found that cases of serious emotional disturbance — such as anxiety, depression, or inappropriate behavior significant enough to negatively affect a child’s school performance and everyday life — were nearly triple pre-storm levels more than two years after Katrina." | 2021 | webpage | https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/03/lessons-from-katrina-on-how-pandemic-may-affect-kids/ | |||||||||||||||||||
34 | Research | Society for Research in Child Development | Understanding the Impacts of Natural Disasters on Children | "Natural disasters present a significant and growing threat to the well-being of children. Every year, 175 million children globally are expected to be affected by natural disasters, including floods, cyclones, droughts, heatwaves, severe storms, and earthquakes.1 Children are particularly vulnerable during natural disasters and experience increased problems regarding their physical health, mental health, and learning after exposure.2–5 Prevention and mitigation policies can reduce children’s risk by helping communities better prepare for and respond to disasters. Increasing school safety, increasing the availability of evidence-based recovery programs, and targeting services to children at highest risk for problems are needed to mitigate the impact of natural disasters on children." | 2020 | webpage | https://www.srcd.org/research/understanding-impacts-natural-disasters-children | |||||||||||||||||||
35 | Reports | Children's Defense Fund | Katrina's Children -- Still Struggling | “Dear President Obama: My name is Jade Windon, 7thgrade student at McDonogh 42 Charter School in New Orleans, Louisiana. Mr. President, I write to you expressing how many of our lives continue to be affected today by the storm that happened almost four years ago. Hurricane Katrina devastated the lives of everyone here and in the Gulf Coast region. Here in New Orleans, we are making very little progress. Our communities are still feeling the effects of Katrina. I ask you Mr. President to please help us rebuild our lives and city. Our school, jobs and health care are just a few of the things that I would like to see fixed. Thank you Mr. President and may God Bless America, especially New Orleans. Sincerely, Jade Windon.” | webpage | https://www.childrensdefense.org/katrinas-children-still-struggling/ | ||||||||||||||||||||
36 | Research | American Psychological Association | Mental Health Effects After Katrina | "One Year after Katrina, More Is Known About its Mental Health Effects; Storm’s Widespread Effect on People of Color and Children and the Need for Culturally Competent Mental Health Services Are Evident" | 2006 | webpage | https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2006/08/katrina | |||||||||||||||||||
37 | Research | RTI International | An in-depth public health study of a hurricane-stricken population: Effects of FEMA Trailers on Children | Among these consequences was an unforeseen hazard. It turned out that the temporary housing units provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency contained formaldehyde, a probable carcinogen. As physicians began to report an uptick in respiratory ailments among former FEMA trailer residents in the years following Katrina and Rita, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention investigated. In 2010, the CDC chose RTI to conduct research focused on the health effects of FEMA trailers on children." | 2017 | webpage | https://www.rti.org/impact/childrens-health-after-storms-chats | |||||||||||||||||||
38 | Research | National Library of Medicine | Serious Emotion Disturbance among Youth Exposed to Hurricane Katrina Two Years Post-Disaster | "OBJECTIVE: To estimate the prevalence of serious emotional disturbance (SED) among children and adolescents exposed to Hurricane Katrina along with the associations of SED with hurricane-related stressors, socio-demographics, and family factors 18–27 months following the hurricane." | 2009 | journals | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3992889/ | |||||||||||||||||||
39 | Reports | Smithsonian Magazine | The Black Children of Hurricane Katrina Finally Tell Their Stories | "A new documentary, ‘Katrina Babies,’ spotlights the disaster’s youngest survivors" | 2022 | webpage | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/black-children-hurricane-katrina-tell-their-stories-180980668/ | |||||||||||||||||||
40 | Reports | National Center for Disaster Preparedness | Legacy of Katrina: The Impact of a Flawed Recovery on Vulnerable Children of the Gulf Coast | "It is estimated that in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, which made landfall on August 29th, 2005 and was followed a month later by Hurricane Rita, approximately 1.5 million people, including some 163,000 children were displaced in Louisiana and Mississippi alone." | 2013 | journals | https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/D8H420TK | |||||||||||||||||||
41 | Research | Cambridge University Press | Children as Bellwethers of Recovery: Dysfunctional Systems and the Effects of Parents, Households, and Neighborhoods on Serious Emotional Disturbance in Children After Hurricane Katrina | "Results: Although access to medical care for children has expanded considerably since 2005 in the region affected by Hurricane Katrina, more than 37% of children have received a clinical mental health diagnosis of depression, anxiety, or behavior disorder, according to parent reports. Children exposed to Hurricane Katrina were nearly 5 times as likely as a pre-Katrina cohort to exhibit serious emotional disturbance. Path analyses confirm the roles played by neighborhood social disorder, household stressors, and parental limitations on children's emotional and behavioral functioning." | 2010 | journals | https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/disaster-medicine-and-public-health-preparedness/article/abs/children-as-bellwethers-of-recovery-dysfunctional-systems-and-the-effects-of-parents-households-and-neighborhoods-on-serious-emotional-disturbance-in-children-after-hurricane-katrina/AE525D70DA90C9F0EA1A20AF493B780E | |||||||||||||||||||
42 | Research | Sociological Spectrum Journal | SOCIAL IMPACTS OF HURRICANE KATRINA ON DISPLACED K–12 STUDENTS AND EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS IN COASTAL ALABAMA COUNTIES: SOME PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS | "Abstract: Hurricane Katrina devastated communities along the Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama Gulf coast. Over 300,000 students were displaced and evacuees relocated throughout the United States. K–12 schools in Mobile and Baldwin counties, situated along coastal Alabama, hosted 3,681 students from the devastated areas. From an analysis of quantitative data and qualitative information obtained from school personnel, we summarize problems and issues that characterized displaced students, families, and host schools. Suggestions for immediate and long-term support for host K–12 schools and displaced families are provided along with suggestions for future research." | 2007 | journals | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02732170701534267 | |||||||||||||||||||
43 | Reports | Northeastern University | The human rights impact of Hurricane Katrina | "This is the final story in news@Northeastern’s three-part series commemorating the 10th anniversary of what FEMA called the single most catastrophic natural disaster in U.S. history. The destruction of Hurricane Katrina caused unprecedented flooding and widespread destruction. But more than just the physical damage and financial loss, there was the human toll. It catastrophic storm forced nearly 200,000 residents to abandon their homes. A decade later, many of them still have not returned. A lack of affordable housing, poor distribution of relief funds, and inadequate healthcare are just some of the obstacles that have prevented evacuees from returning home, which Amnesty International has said is a violation of human rights." | 2015 | webpage | https://cssh.northeastern.edu/human-rights-impact-hurricane-katrina/ | |||||||||||||||||||
44 | Catalog | Literary Hub | Katrina, 10 Years After: A Reading List | Books to read about the story of Hurricane Katrina: "The authorial voices vary in origin but share a common resonance. Fury tempered by resilience, awe subsumed by fear. Among the ranks are a poet laureate, professor, radioman, scientist, actor, doctor, musician, cartoonist. Too many voices to name. So I will forfeit any hope of being comprehensive in favor of sharing what moved me in the hope that you, too, will be stirred to reconnect with the ghosts of our recent past, resurrected for us by these mighty storytellers who refuse to let us forget the legacy of Hurricane Katrina." | 2015 | books, archive, webpage | https://lithub.com/a-decade-after-katrina/ | |||||||||||||||||||
45 | Catalog | Chicago Public Library | TOPIC GUIDE: Hurricane Katrina: 15th Anniversary | "These fiction and nonfiction books explore the destruction, rebuilding and ultimate legacy of the historic storm that devastated New Orleans and the Gulf Coast." | 2015 | books, archive, webpage | https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/list/share/199702383/1697895829 | |||||||||||||||||||
46 | Research | Texas A&M University | Hurricane Katrina: A Study of the Awareness, Participation and Satisfaction of Federally Funded Programs | "The survey results, in conjunction with in person interviews and a review of scholarly works and previous disasters, suggest several key themes and recommendations for changes to the current recovery structure. There is a need for an increased use of and stronger partnership with the media to disseminate information for all programs, as well as an increased use of nongovernmental and local organizations in program implementation. Improving consistency by streamlining the application process to encompass all federally funded programs in one application, as well as improving the training of program personnel and reducing the turnover of agency staff will enhance the recovery process. Other recommendations include increasing program flexibility during a disaster, reducing the wait time for funds to be disbursed to recipients and allowing those disbursements to be made with fewer installments, and improving communication between federal agencies, as well as with state and local entities. " | https://bush.tamu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/2007FederalFundingHurricaneKatrina.pdf | |||||||||||||||||||||
47 | Research | Frontiers in Environmental Science | Impact of Hurricane Katrina on the Coastal Systems of Southern Louisiana | "Natural disasters, such as hurricanes and forest fires, could trigger collapse and reorganization of social-ecological systems. In the face of external perturbations, a resilient system would have capacity to absorb impacts, adapt to change, learn, and if needed, reorganize within the same regime. Within this context, we asked how human and natural systems in Louisiana responded to Hurricane Katrina, and how the natural disaster altered the status of these systems. This paper discusses community resilience to natural hazards and addresses the limitations for assessing disaster resilience. Furthermore, we assessed social and environmental change in New Orleans and southern Louisiana through both a spatial and temporal lens (i.e., pre- and post-Katrina). By analyzing changes in system condition using social, economic and environmental factors, we identified some of the characteristics of the system's reorganization trajectories. Our results suggest that although the ongoing population recovery may be a sign of revitalization, the city and metropolitan area continue to face socioeconomic inequalities and environmental vulnerability to natural disasters. Further, the spatial distribution of social-ecological condition over time reveals certain levels of change and reorganization after Katrina, but the reorganization did not translate into greater equity. This effort presents an enhanced approach to assessing social-ecological change pre and post disturbance and provides a way forward for characterizing pertinent aspects of disaster resilience." | 2019 | journals | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2019.00068/full | |||||||||||||||||||
48 | Reports | American Economic Association | The Economic Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina | "On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina swept into Louisiana and New Orleans, a city built largely on land reclaimed from swamp, witnessed massive failures in its levees. Much of the city and its surrounding suburbs were inundated; those residents of the city who had not heeded warnings to flee the approaching storm were evacuated in its wake. In less than a week, the city's population declined from over 400,000 to near zero. Census Bureau estimates indicate that almost two years after the storm, by July 1, 2007, nearly half of these evacuees had yet to return. Will the future New Orleans bear any resemblance to the city that existed prior to Katrina? Most government authorities, from city officials to federal spokespersons, insist that New Orleans must -- and should -- be fully rebuilt. Many environmental scientists question whether such a rebuilding would be sensible, given the city's precarious geological position and the contribution of past land reclamation to the city's current vulnerability. The more basic positive question of whether the city will come back, however, is fundamentally an economic one. After Hurricane Katrina, will the city of New Orleans continue to be a preferred location for more than 400,000 residents and their employers? Or will the disaster shift the city to a new equilibrium level of employment and population?" | 2008 | journals | https://www.aeaweb.org/articles/pdf/doi/10.1257/jep.22.4.135 | |||||||||||||||||||
49 | Research | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Reconstruction of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina: A research perspective | "Abstract: Four propositions drawn from 60 years of natural hazard and reconstruction research provide a comparative and historical perspective on the reconstruction of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Decisions taken over its 288-year history that have made New Orleans so vulnerable to Katrina reflect a long-term pattern of societal response to hazard events—reducing consequences to relatively frequent events, and increasing vulnerability to very large and rare events. Thus Katrina's consequences for New Orleans were truly catastrophic—accounting for most of the estimated 1,570 deaths of Louisiana residents and $40–50 billion in monetary losses. A comparative sequence and timing of recovery provides a calendar of historical experience against which to gauge progress in reconstruction. Using this calendar, the emergency postdisaster period appears to be longer in duration than that of any other studied disaster. The restoration period, the time taken to restore urban services for the smaller population, is in keeping with or ahead of historical experience. The effort to reconstruct the physical environment and urban infrastructure is likely to take 8–11 years. Conflicting policy goals for reconstruction of rapid recovery, safety, betterment, and equity are already evident. Actions taken demonstrate the rush to rebuild the familiar in contrast to planning efforts that emphasize betterment. Because disasters tend to accelerate existing economic, social, and political trends, the large losses in housing, population, and employment after Katrina are likely to persist and, at best, only partly recover. However, the possibility of breaking free of this gloomy trajectory is feasible and has some historical precedent." | 2006 | journals | https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.0605726103 | |||||||||||||||||||
50 | Research | Journal of Black Studies | Katrina: Race, Class, and Poverty: Reflections and Analysis | "The nexus between race, class, and poverty illustrates how many in the New Orleans areas most vulnerable were African American or elderly or both." | 2007 | journals | https://www.jstor.org/stable/40034317 | |||||||||||||||||||
51 | Catalog | Wikipedia | Category: Documentary films about Hurricane Katrina | List of 14 films: An American Opera Hexing a Hurricane Hurricane on the Bayou If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise Katrina Babies Land of Opportunity Mine (2009 film) New Orleans Music in Exile No Place Like Home (2006 film) One Note at a Time Putting the River in Reverse Trouble the Water Walking on Dead Fish When the Levees Broke | 2005-present | archive, webpage | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Documentary_films_about_Hurricane_Katrina | |||||||||||||||||||
52 | Catalog | PBS Frontline | Katrina, 10 Years Later: Three Documentaries to Watch | 3 PBS Documentaries to Watch | 2015 | archive, webpage, .mp4 | https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/katrina-10-years-later-three-documentaries-to-watch/ | |||||||||||||||||||
53 | Catalog | The Times-Picayune | NOLA.com readers rank their favorite Hurricane Katrina movies | "With the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina fast approaching...NOLA.com readers have their say, based on the results of our online poll. In all, some 217 votes were cast, from as far away as German and the Netherlands. Here's how you ranked your favorite Katrina movies, as of earlier this week." | 2015 | archive, webpage | https://www.nola.com/entertainment_life/movies_tv/nola-com-readers-rank-their-favorite-hurricane-katrina-movies/article_f36c8d41-9b2f-5f24-9909-e92d7e09e61f.html | |||||||||||||||||||
54 | Catalog | Library of Congress | Today in History - August 29 - Hurricane Katrina | “And you remember, uh, even after we couldn’t pump no more. I thought I was dreamin’ for awhile. I thought I saw bodies—dead bodies—in—in the water—” “Yeah.” “—and floatin’.” “I don’t b’lieve that was no dream. And you know what? It’s gon’ linger with us, it’s gon’ be with us, until the rest of my life i’ gone, y’know, it gonna linger, it gonna be there with me.” Rufus Burkhalter and Bobby BrownExternal, New Orleans Pump Station operators, in conversation remembering Hurricane Katrina. | archive, webpage | https://www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/august-29/ | ||||||||||||||||||||
55 | Statistics | Carleton College | Understanding Katrina | "This overview describes Hurricane Katrina and the science behind the disaster. Topics include hurricane history in the Gulf Coast, the geologic setting of the area affected by Hurricane Katrina, the science of the storm, the storm surge and flooding in New Orleans and the damage incurred by Hurricane Katrina." | 2006 | webpage | https://serc.carleton.edu/research_education/katrina/understanding.html | |||||||||||||||||||
56 | Reports | FOX8 News New Orleans | Cold Case: Hurricane Katrina victim identified nearly two decades later | "Tonette Jackson was presumed missing ever since flood water swept her away when Hurricane Katrina struck. Her body was recovered between two homes in St. Martin and just recently identified thanks to DNA testing." | 2024 | webpage, .mp4 | https://www.fox8live.com/2024/05/16/cold-case-hurricane-katrina-victim-identified-nearly-two-decades-later/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=snd&utm_content=wvue | |||||||||||||||||||
57 | Reports | The Intercept | An Israeli Company Is Hawking Its Self-Launching Drone System to U.S. Police Departments in Louisiana | “One sheriff’s department in Louisiana (Baton Rouge) has repeatedly tested the system, called Orion, which is already in use by the Israeli national police..” | 2024 | webpage | https://theintercept.com/2024/05/17/israel-orione-drone-us-police-louisiana/?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=theintercept&utm_medium=social | |||||||||||||||||||
58 | Reports | The Advocate | Ray Nagin. Les Miles. Ronald Greene. How public records unveiled largest cover-ups in Louisiana. | "Bokelberg said he instructed his trainees in the FBI's public corruption squad to read the newspaper every morning and found that local investigative journalism was "often the tip of the spear" for uncovering evidence by using public records. He said he shudders to think of the valuable tool being taken away. Matthew Chester, a lawyer now in private practice who was part of the Nagin prosecution team, also described the public records — and specifically Nagin's calendar entries — as an important part of the government's case. Such information, however, might no longer be accessible if the Legislature passes Senate Bill 482, which would gut the state’s public records law. The bill, carried by state Sen. Heather Cloud, R-Turkey Creek, would make any records off-limits to the public that reflect “advisory opinions, recommendations and deliberations comprising part of a process by which governmental decisions and policies are formulated.” The law would apply to all levels of government, from Gov. Jeff Landry’s office to local school boards and libraries." | 2024 | webpage | https://www.nola.com/news/politics/legislature/how-louisiana-public-records-laws-help-expose-corruption/article_2cf17f84-0268-11ef-84e3-1b09a722f3bf.html | |||||||||||||||||||
59 | Reports | The Advocate | Jeff Landry refuses to name expert to NO levee board. His move has raised flood protection concerns. | Katrina taught us hard lesson that flood protection should not be politicized,' says good-government advocate. "Landry's refusal comes despite the objections of the head of the independent committee that unanimously nominated her for the position and leaders of several state good-government organizations. The decision could result in a vacancy on the nine-member board overseeing hurricane protection on the New Orleans area's east bank from July 1 through September, well into the height of the 2024 hurricane season." "Landry gave no reason for turning thumbs down on University of New Orleans Civil Engineering Professor Norma Jean Mattei, other than that it was within his discretion to do so under the state Constitution. Mattei said no reason was given to her by Landry staffers who informed her that her nomination would not be forwarded to the Louisiana Senate for confirmation." "Landry's decision raises concerns that "the purpose and independence of the levee board is going to get undermined," said Laitram LLC President Jay Lapeyre Jr., who has served as chairman of the nominating committees for the boards of the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East and -West for 12 years. "Candidly, she’s one of the best candidates we’ve ever had. She’s been on the nominating committee for many years. She’s managerial, she’s an engineer, she’s got a great style about her," Lapeyre said." | 2024 | webpage | https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/environment/jeff-landry-refuses-engineering-expert-for-no-levee-board/article_cf1801da-71cd-5ea3-9624-b95e32fb5d00.html?taid=664bd6165000d60001de8105&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter | |||||||||||||||||||
60 | Reports | Scalawag Magazine | The hidden toll of Hurricane Katrina on the mental health of Black survivors | "Survivors open up about struggles with lingering post-traumatic stress disorder 18 years after the storm." "When Hurricane Katrina touched down in New Orleans in late August 2005, nine-year-old Nia Burnett was too young to realize that her life would never be the same. Nia's family had chosen to stay in the city and wait out the storm. They all headed to a local hospital for safety. What they found were corpses lining the hallways. The whole building smelled like rotten flesh. Nia remembers later standing on the roof after the hospital started flooding, waiting to be rescued. Below her, she watched as all the neighborhoods she used to play in with her friends were swallowed up by the rising waters. Meanwhile, even more bodies floated around the hospital. It wasn't until 11 years after the storm that Nia was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder." | November 2023 | webpage | https://scalawagmagazine.org/2023/11/hurricane-katrina-ptsd/ | |||||||||||||||||||
61 | Research | National Center for Biotechnology Information | Recovery from PTSD following Hurricane Katrina | "The majority of adults who developed estimated PTSD after Hurricane Katrina did not recover within 18-27 months. Delayed onset was common. Findings document the importance of initial trauma exposure severity in predicting course of illness and suggest that pre- and post-trauma factors typically associated with course of estimated PTSD did not influence recovery following Hurricane Katrina." | February 2011 | webpage | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3138333/ | |||||||||||||||||||
62 | Reports | The Guardian | ‘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" | August 2022 | webpage | https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/aug/22/katrina-babies-documentary-edward-buckles-new-orleans | |||||||||||||||||||
63 | Reports | Nature | Hurricane Katrina’s psychological scars revealed | "Mental health worsened in the disaster’s aftermath, but survivors also showed resilience." | August 2015 | webpage, pdf | https://www.nature.com/articles/524395a | |||||||||||||||||||
64 | Research | Princeton University | Hurricane Katrina survivors struggle with mental health years later, study says | "Survivors of Hurricane Katrina have struggled with poor mental health for years after the storm, according to a new study of low-income mothers in the New Orleans area. The study’s lead author, Christina Paxson of Princeton University, said that the results were a departure from other surveys both in the design and the results. The researchers were able to collect data on the participants before Katrina and nearly five years after the August 2005 storm, finding a persistence of poor mental health and gaining insights into how different types of hurricane-related stressors affect mental health. “On average, people were not back to baseline mental health and they were showing pretty high levels of post-traumatic stress symptoms. There aren’t many studies that trace people for this long, but the very few that there are suggest faster recovery than what we’re finding here,” said Paxson, who is Princeton’s Hughes-Rogers Professor of Economics and Public Affairs and dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. “I think the lesson for treatment of mental health conditions is don’t think it’s over after a year. It isn’t.”" | January 2012 | webpage | https://www.princeton.edu/news/2012/01/24/hurricane-katrina-survivors-struggle-mental-health-years-later-study-says | |||||||||||||||||||
65 | Research | Oxford Academic - British Journal of Social Work | Shared Traumatic Stress among Social Workers in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina | ABSTRACT: "With climate change, social workers and other mental health professionals may find themselves living and working in environments prone to natural disasters. The term shared traumatic stress (SdTS) contains aspects of post-traumatic stress and secondary trauma, and reflects practitioners' dual exposure to collective traumatic events. In an effort to explore and further validate the construct of SdTS, a sample of 244 social workers from New Orleans were studied using path analytic modelling with respect to the personal and professional impact of Hurricane Katrina. Potential risk factors included attachment style, exposure to potentially traumatic life events and enduring distress attributed to Hurricane Katrina. Social workers' resilience was examined for its role in mediating the relationship between these risk factors and SdTS. As hypothesised, insecure attachment, greater exposure to potentially traumatic life events in general and distress related to the events surrounding Hurricane Katrina were predictive of higher levels of SdTS. Insecure attachment and enduring distress attributed to Katrina also significantly predicted lower levels of resilience, though exposure to potentially traumatic life events did not. Resilience was found to mediate the relationship between insecure attachment, enduring distress attributed to Katrina and SdTS but not the relationship between exposure to potentially traumatic life events and SdTS. Implications for theory, research and practice are described." | January 2014 | webpage, pdf | https://academic.oup.com/bjsw/article/45/4/1313/1671485 | |||||||||||||||||||
66 | Reports | Politico | Katrina brain': The invisible long-term toll of megastorms | "Long after a big hurricane blows through, its effects hammer the mental-health system." | October 2017 | webpage | https://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2017/10/12/psychological-toll-natural-disasters-000547/ | |||||||||||||||||||
67 | Reports | Fox Weather | They survived Ian and Katrina. Now, they suffer from hurricane PTSD | "Mental health experts are spreading awareness about a specific type of trauma connected to surviving hurricanes. Two survivors of Hurricane Katrina, one of whom also survived Ian, spoke with FOX Weather's Mitti Hicks about the challenges they face, and keeping their eyes on the hope ahead." | October 2022 | webpage, mp4 | https://www.foxweather.com/extreme-weather/hurricane-ian-katrina-ptsd-trauma | |||||||||||||||||||
68 | Reports | Psychology Today | Post Traumatic Stress Disorder After 9/11 and Katrina | "Victims of 9/11 and Katrina experienced PTSD somewhat differently. Statistics say that only 5% of those who survived 9/11 in New York City went on to experience symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). But in the case of Hurricane Katrina, 33% later suffered symptoms. This is a very high percentage, even for an extremely traumatizing event. So why the disparity in PTSD rates between 9/11 and Katrina?" | September 2011 | webpage | https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/somatic-psychology/201109/post-traumatic-stress-disorder-after-911-and-katrina | |||||||||||||||||||
69 | Research | Harvard School of Public Health | Twelve years after Hurricane Katrina, some still suffering from post-traumatic stress | "Researchers affiliated with the RISK project have published a study in Social Science & Medicine that looks at the long-term mental health consequences of Hurricane Katrina. Among the study participants—a group of low-income mothers— one in six was found to still be suffering post-traumatic stress symptoms (PTSS), and hurricane-related traumas were found to predict persistent PTSS." | October 2019 | webpage, pdf | https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/population-development/2019/10/31/twelve-years-after-hurricane-katrina-some-still-suffering-from-post-traumatic-stress/ | |||||||||||||||||||
70 | Reports | Weather.com | "We're The Walking Dead" | "Along the Gulf Coast, Hurricane Katrina sparked an unprecedented epidemic of mental health issues, including depression, anxiety and PTSD. Ten years later, is the mental health care system any more prepared for the next big storm?" | August 2015 | webpage | https://features.weather.com/katrina/chapter/ptsd/ | |||||||||||||||||||
71 | Reports | Federal Bureau of Investigation | Hurricane Katrina Fraud | The FBI's report on Hurricane Katrina Fraud. | 2005- | webpage | https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/hurricane-katrina-fraud | |||||||||||||||||||
72 | Reports | The Times-Picayune | Katrina brought billions of dollars -- and quite a bit of fraud | "By 2011, the Hurricane Katrina Fraud Task Force, later renamed the Disaster Fraud Task Force, said it had prosecuted 1,439 people in half the country's 94 federal judicial districts for illegal activity related to hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma. The cases involved charity scams, government and private-sector benefit fraud, identity theft, contract and procurement fraud and old-fashioned political corruption." | July 2019 | webpage | https://www.nola.com/news/katrina-brought-billions-of-dollars----and-quite-a-bit-of-fraud/article_44e9c0fd-7a8c-51e3-ae07-02b81abb47d1.html | |||||||||||||||||||
73 | Reports | US Department of Justice | Hurricane Katrina Fraud Task Force: Second Year Report to the Attorney General | “TASK FORCE BACKGROUND AND MISSION: The Department of Justice remains absolutely dedicated to vigorously investigating and prosecuting all types of fraud in the hurricane region.” Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, Testimony Before Senate Judiciary Committee, January 18, 2007" | September 2007 | webpage, pdf | https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/criminal-disasters/legacy/2012/07/30/09-04-07AG2ndyrprogrpt.pdf | |||||||||||||||||||
74 | Reports | Cato Institute | Hurricane Katrina: Remembering the Federal Failures | "Perhaps the most appalling aspect of the federal response to Katrina was that officials obstructed private relief efforts, as these examples illustrate: FEMA repeatedly blocked the delivery of emergency supplies ordered by the Methodist Hospital in New Orleans from its out‐of‐state headquarters. FEMA turned away doctors volunteering their services at emergency facilities. Methodist’s sister hospital, Chalmette, for example, sent doctors to the emergency facility set up at New Orleans Airport to offer their services, but they were turned away because their names were not in a government database. Private medical air transport companies played an important role in evacuations after Katrina. But FEMA officials provided no help in coordinating these services, and they actively blocked some of the flights." | August 2015 | webpage | https://www.cato.org/blog/hurricane-katrina-remembering-federal-failures | |||||||||||||||||||
75 | Reports | Clairon Ledger | Amid post-Katrina generosity came $1.4B in fraud | "Greed appeared to overcome common sense for many. Over the last 10 years, mayors, county officials, FEMA officials, police officers — at least one police chief — pastors, prison inmates, and people from Alabama to Hawaii have been busted for what would become synonymous with the storm: Katrina fraud. Money intended for victims paid for tattoos, massages, yachts, an engagement ring, a $200 bottle of Dom Perignon at a Hooters, a divorce attorney, strippers, gambling, hotel rooms for $438 a night in New York City and extended stays in Hawaii." | August 2015 | webpage | https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2015/08/21/amid-post-katrina-generosity-came-fraud/32112441/ | |||||||||||||||||||
76 | Reports | Washington Examiner | 10 years later, extent of Katrina fraud still unknown | "A decade after Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast with historic ferocity, the federal government still doesn’t know how many taxpayer dollars were lost to waste and fraud in the aftermath of the storm. Botched contracts, rampant fraud and mismanaged projects squandered millions of dollars meant to help the victims of Katrina. Politicians and business owners who skimmed off the top of the government’s relief effort were later jailed, with some remaining behind bars to this day." | August 2015 | webpage | https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/1521823/10-years-later-extent-of-katrina-fraud-still-unknown/ | |||||||||||||||||||
77 | Reports | US Government Accountability Office | Hurricanes Katrina and Rita Disaster Relief: | "Improper and Potentially Fraudulent Individual Assistance Payments Estimated to Be Between $600 Million and $1.4 Billion" | June 2006 | webpage, pdf | https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-06-844t | |||||||||||||||||||
78 | Reports | The New York Times | "'Breathtaking' Waste and Fraud in Hurricane Aid" | "WASHINGTON, June 26 — Among the many superlatives associated with Hurricane Katrina can now be added this one: it produced one of the most extraordinary displays of scams, schemes and stupefying bureaucratic bungles in modern history, costing taxpayers up to $2 billion." | June 2006 | webpage | https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/27/washington/27katrina.html | |||||||||||||||||||
79 | Reports | Department of Homeland Security | "HURRICANE KATRINA: A NATION STILL UNPREPARED" | "SPECIAL REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON HOMELAND SECURITY AND GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS UNITED STATES SENATE TOGETHER WITH ADDITIONAL VIEWS" 737 pages, pdf | 2006 | https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CRPT-109srpt322/pdf/CRPT-109srpt322.pdf | ||||||||||||||||||||
80 | Research | Southern Methodist University | "A Domestic Right of Return: Race, Rights, and Residency in New Orleans in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina" | ABSTRACT: This article begins with a critical account of what occurred in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. This critique serves as the backdrop for a discussion of whether there are international laws or norms that give poor, black Katrina victims the right to return to and resettle in New Orleans. In framing this discussion, this article first briefly explores some of the housing deprivations suffered by Katrina survivors that have led to widespread displacement and dispossession. The article then discusses two of the chief barriers to the return of poor blacks to New Orleans: the broad perception of a race-crime nexus and the general effect of the imposition of outsider status on poor, black people by dominant groups. Finally, the article explores the international law concept of the right of return and its expression as a domestic, internal norm via standards addressing internally displaced persons, and considers how such a "domestic right of return" might be applicable to the Katrina victims. "As a practical matter, these poorfolks don't have the resources to go back to our city, just like they didn't have the resources to get out of our city."... "So we won't get all those folks back. That's just a fact. It's not what I want, it's just a fact." -Joseph Canizaro, member of New Orleans's rebuilding commission' | 2007 | https://scholar.smu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1443&context=law_faculty | ||||||||||||||||||||
81 | Reports | BBC News | Fema 'knew of New Orleans danger' | "The former head of the US emergency agency has acknowledged that the government knew the flood barriers protecting New Orleans were inadequate. Michael Brown was forced to quit the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) after bitter criticism of the response to Hurricane Katrina. In a BBC documentary, he admitted that the levees had not been upgraded to deal with the most powerful hurricanes. In the interview, Mr Brown said that Fema had positioned resources at the New Orleans Superdome stadium to help people who were sheltering there. But he said he was amazed when more and more people kept coming in - a result he described as an "fascinating phenomena". The documentary also reveals that a key briefing officer within Fema sent a message directly to Mr Brown early on the day before Katrina hit, warning him of potentially disastrous flooding in New Orleans, which could trap more than 100,000 people. In the event, Katrina devastated parts of Louisiana and Mississippi on 29 August, causing massive flooding in New Orleans, killing about 1,200 people and causing misery to those unable to escape to safety. Last month, Mr Brown testified to a congressional panel investigating shortcomings in the rescue effort, defending his role and saying that Louisiana officials had been reluctant to order evacuations. He said his "biggest mistake" had been not recognising that Louisiana was "dysfunctional"." | October 11, 2005 | webpage | http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4331330.stm | |||||||||||||||||||
82 | Reports | CNN | "Transcript of radio interview with New Orleans' Nagin" | "Mayor to feds: 'Get off your asses'" 9/2/2005 | September 2, 2005 | webpage | https://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/02/nagin.transcript/ | |||||||||||||||||||
83 | Reports | The Sydney Morning Herald | Barbara Bush comments on [Katrina] survivors spark outrage | "Comments about Hurricane Katrina victims by the mother of President George Bush have fuelled the ire of some Americans, who see the Bush family as out-of-touch patricians. The refugees in Houston, Texas, were "underprivileged anyway" and life in the Astrodome sports arena is "working very well for them", former first lady Barbara Bush said in a radio interview." | September 7, 2005 | webpage | https://www.smh.com.au/world/barbara-bush-comments-on-survivors-spark-outrage-20050907-gdm0v5.html | |||||||||||||||||||
84 | Reports | The Times-Picayune | Radio captures the horror, exhaustion | "Wednesday began with TV and radio coverage of live prayers by the governor and a collection of holy men. By the time New Orleans City Council President Oliver Thomas joined Cohen and Chris Miller on WWL in mid-afternoon, the things he’d seen in the streets were going to be literally unforgettable. He’d seen a body, probably many, in the water on a reconnaissance boat trip. “I still see that body,” he said. “I see his position. I see the color of the clothes he had on.” He’d seen looters, too, and asked anybody with ulterior intentions “to get on your knees and pray for intervention.” He’d seen hell where a kind of heaven should be. He’d heard references to Sodom and Gomorrah. “Maybe God’s going to cleanse us,” said Thomas. No place is that wicked." | August 31, 2005 | webpage | https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20051112000150/http://www.nola.com/newslogs/breakingtp/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_Times-Picayune/archives/2005_08.html | |||||||||||||||||||
85 | Reports | The Times-Picayune | An open letter to the President | "We, who are from New Orleans, are no less American than those who live on the Great Plains or along the Atlantic Seaboard. We’re no less important than those from the Pacific Northwest or Appalachia. Our people deserved to be rescued. No expense should have been spared. No excuses should have been voiced. Especially not one as preposterous as the claim that New Orleans couldn’t be reached. Mr. President, we sincerely hope you fulfill your promise to make our beloved communities work right once again. When you do, we will be the first to applaud." | September 4, 2005 | https://web.archive.org/web/20050915100847/http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090405/a15.pdf | ||||||||||||||||||||
86 | Reports | Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project | Gale Force Whistle-Blower Reveals Hurricane Katrina Relief Fraud | "The US Department of Justice has joined a whistle-blower’s lawsuit against California-based engineering firm AECOM, alleging the firm had overcharged the government for its reconstruction efforts after Hurricane Katrina and helped several institutions overestimating damages on their buildings. The firm allegedly defrauded the government of more than US$100 million." | June 2020 | webpage | https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/12490-gale-force-whistle-blower-reveals-hurricane-katrina-relief-fraud | |||||||||||||||||||
87 | Reports | PoliticalResearch.org | The Long Hurricane: The New Orleans Catastrophe Predates Katrina | "Five years after Hurricane Katrina and the “federal flood,” as locals call the disaster, the new New Orleans is as much the product of decades of antiwelfare ideology in local and national governments as it is of the unique circumstances of the disaster. Since the storm, a resurgent racist business elite has gained power in the city and region, and instituted a new era of urban renewal—or, as community activists termed it the first time around, in the 1960s, “Negro removal.” Privatization of New Orleans’ public sector has proceeded to a degree that real estate, banking, and industry leaders in other regions only dream of. Federal disaster subsidies have enabled reinvestment in the state’s major economic sectors—oil and gas, shipping, military, and tourism. Characterized by low wages and ecocidal byproducts, these industries dominate state and city politics. Yet New Orleans is held up as a model of redevelopment, its innovations made possible by an unfortunate storm called Katrina." | Fall 2010 | webpage | https://politicalresearch.org/2010/11/01/the-long-hurricane-the-new-orleans-catastrophe-predates-katrina | |||||||||||||||||||
88 | Reports | Workers.org | In rebuilding after Katrina, it’s the same corrupt story | "A House of Representatives report released on May 4 reveals that contractors working on recovery efforts after Hurri cane Katrina have been overpaid by the government for their services through over stated mileage claims, duplicate bills for the same service, mixing toxic with non-toxic debris to inflate the cost of removing it, and layer upon layer of subcontractors that increase fees. In one example, the Army Corps of Engineers allowed contracts totaling more than $300 million for roof repairs using cheap blue plastic sheeting. While these businesses have been raking in recovery money, however, it’s another story when it comes to the workers. The Mississippi Immigrant Rights Alliance reports that it has had to fight to reclaim $500,000 in back wages for workers in the Gulf region who had not been paid by contractors and subcontractors. Thousands of these workers pro tested in New Orleans on May Day as part of the national immigrant rights rallies." | May 2006 | webpage | https://www.workers.org/2006/us/katrina-0518/ | |||||||||||||||||||
89 | Reports | NBC News | Digging deeper -- why did the levees break? Focus on possibility that contractors skimped on materials in New Orleans | "There is now a criminal investigation into the failure of the New Orleans levee system during Hurricane Katrina. With the Louisiana's attorney general leading one of several investigations, local reports say charges and lawsuits are likely. Was it corrupt contractors skimping on construction material? Did the Army Corps of Engineers cut corners while building the walls that were designed to protect the people of the city? On Friday, 'Scarborough Country' Guest Host Monica Crowley talked with New Orleans City Council Vice President Cynthia Morrell, 'Washington Post' Reporter Mike Grunwald and FBI Agent James Bernazzani about the latest in the investigation." | November 14, 2005 | webpage, mp4 | https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna10007601 | |||||||||||||||||||
90 | Reports | The Augusta Chronicle | Gustav did what Katrina could not | "In 2005, Hurricane Katrina first exposed eight-term New Orleans U.S. Rep. William Jefferson as a snake in the grass. But it took Hurricane Gustav in 2008 to blow Congress' most fetid politician out of office." | December 2008 | webpage | https://www.augustachronicle.com/story/opinion/editorials/2008/12/09/edi-503184-shtml/14651105007/ | |||||||||||||||||||
91 | Reports | SocialistAlternative.org | Hurricane Katrina: Biggest Refugee Crisis Since the American Civil War | "The effects of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and Mississippi could be the US’s worst natural disaster, with a projected 10,000 or more people dead and its biggest refugee crisis since the American Civil War. But it is no less a catastrophe for the Bush regime and the system which it defends, US capitalism, the major prop of world capitalism." | September 8-14, 2005 | webpage | https://www.socialistalternative.org/poor-black-and-left-to-die/hurricane-katrina/ | |||||||||||||||||||
92 | Reports | US Department of Justice | TWO INDIVIDUALS INDICTED ON CHARGES OF CONSPIRACY AND BRIBERY IN CONNECTION WITH A U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS NEW ORLEANS LEVEE RECONSTRUCTION PROJECT | "WASHINGTON — A former contract employee of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and a dirt, sand and gravel subcontractor were both indicted in connection with a $16 million hurricane protection project for the reconstruction of the Lake Cataouatche Levee, south of New Orleans, the U.S. Department of Justice announced today." | May 15, 2008 | webpage | https://www.justice.gov/archive/atr/public/press_releases/2008/233208.htm | |||||||||||||||||||
93 | Reports | The Washington Post | No justice in New Orleans Danziger Bridge case | "FIVE DAYS after Hurricane Katrina leveled the Gulf Coast in 2005,New Orleans police officers responded to what turned out to be false reports that a fellow officer had been shot. Arriving at the Danziger Bridge on the city’s east side, they jumped from their vehicles and opened fire on two groups of unarmed civilians. When the officers’ barrage was finished, two men were dead and four were badly wounded." | September 2013 | webpage, pdf | https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/no-justice-in-new-orleans-danziger-bridge-case/2013/09/21/e8977754-2239-11e3-b73c-aab60bf735d0_story.html | |||||||||||||||||||
94 | Reports | Vice | Can New Orleans Heal Now That We Know Cops Shot, Killed, and Burned a Black Man After Katrina? | "In officially reclassifying the death of Henry Glover, a 31-year-old father of four, as a homicide, New Orleans's coroner has began to correct one of the more grotesque examples of injustice of an era defined by it." | April 2015 | webpage, mp3 | https://www.vice.com/en/article/vdx4dx/can-new-orleans-heal-now-that-we-know-cops-shot-killed-and-burned-this-man-after-katrina-408 | |||||||||||||||||||
95 | Catalog | Brown University Library | Hurricane Katrina Archive | "Hurricanes Katrina and Rita are likely to have long-term effects on the cities and towns of the Gulf Coast . An interdisciplinary group of scholars, led by S4 Director John Logan, received support from NSF's Human and Social Dynamics program to study these impacts. Subsequent funding from National Institutes of Health has supported an extension of the project to hurricanes throughout the Gulf Coast since 1950." | 2005-present | webpage, archive | https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/collections/bdr:26140/ | |||||||||||||||||||
96 | Reports | National Archives | After a Disaster: The National Archives as “First Preserver” | "As "first preserver" of such documents at the national level, the National Archives and Records Administration helps to assess, recover, and preserve these irreplaceable records. NARA staff spent the post-hurricanes weeks working with federal agencies and our partners in state and local government to begin to identify and recover records. We sent both financial resources and staff from around the country to the affected areas and will continue to do so as long as needed." | Spring 2006 | webpage, pdf | https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2006/spring/first-preserver.html | |||||||||||||||||||
97 | Catalog | The New York Times | Key Documents Regarding the Government Response to Katrina | Archive of documents regarding govt response to Katrina | 2005-present | webpage, archive | https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/ref/national/nationalspecial/10katrina-docs.html?_r=0 | |||||||||||||||||||
98 | Catalog | FEMA | Louisiana Hurricane Katrina DR-1603-LA | FEMA.gov's webpage regarding Hurricane Katrina | 2005-2022 | webpage, archive | https://www.fema.gov/disaster/1603 | |||||||||||||||||||
99 | Reports | National Institue of Environmental Health Sciences | ThE FEDERAL RESPONSE TO HURRICANE KATRINA: LESSONS LEARNED | "Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent sustained flooding of New Orleans exposed significant flaws in Federal, State, and local preparedness for." | February 2006 | webpage, pdf | https://tools.niehs.nih.gov/wetp/public/hasl_get_blob.cfm?ID=4628 | |||||||||||||||||||
100 | Catalog | NOLA Library Archives | Hurricane Katrina (Archive) | "Records are divided into five series: Criminal Justice, Recovery, Subject Files, Housing, and Housing Authority of New Orleans (HANO)." | 2005-present | webpage, archive | https://archivesnolalibrary.as.atlas-sys.com/subjects/121 |