Hurricane Katrina made landfall just before dawn on August 29, 2005, seventy miles south of New Orleans. Largely because the wetlands that make up Louisianas coast had been eroded, the storm surge pushed unabated into southern Louisiana, breaching New Orleans' levees at multiple points, leaving 80 percent of the city submerged, tens of thousands of victims clinging to rooftops, and hundreds of thousands scattered to shelters around the country. Many have yet to return.
The devastation to Mississippi and Louisiana by hurricanes Katrina and Rita has been called the greatest disaster in our nation's history.
HurricaneKatrinaNews.org has been established to document and assist in New Orleans' recovery. It is not of outdated, archived news items but a compilaton of breaking news, highlighting the ongoing debates, resources to better understand the hurricane what we can do about both healing its wounds and preventing a future disaster as well as resources for those still in need.
