Katrina Links

Here are some of the most interesting articles I have found on Katrina. Check back often, as I will add more to this page frequently.

Great Articles

These are Post-Katrina articles I have found particularly informative or entertaining:

Army Corps of Engineers Flood Protection Maps (added 07/01)

Katrina: What the Media Missed (added 06/03)

Times-Picayune Animated Graphic: How New Orleans Flooded (added 05/21)

“Hurricane Pam” Reveals Administration’s Incompetence (added 05/06)

Music is Foundation to Rebuild New Orleans (added 04/29)

Myths, strawmen, and "the best" for New Orleans(added 04/29)

Rising from Rubble (added 04/08)

Rebuilding New Orleans into an Urban Model (added 04/01)

Adopting a built-in respect for nature (added 04/01)

Hurricane Katrina — What Happened? (added 03/11)

A firsthand look at New Orleans, 6 months after Katrina (added 03/11)

New Orleans Hurricane Protection Projects Data (added 03/11)

New Orleans, a little bent but still standing proud (added 03/11)

The Battle of New Orleans (added 03/11)

New Orleans Levee Failure Assessment (added 02/18)

Return to New Orleans (added 01/30)

Planners Anticipate A Better City (added 01/22)

New Orleans Needs The Generosity Of The Nation (added 12/24)

Goodbye New Orleans (added 12/10)

On Their Own in Battered New Orleans(added 12/04)

New Orleans Crime Swept Away, With Most of the People (added 11/12)

Floods Give City Chance to Build Smarter (added 11/12)

Architect: N.O. schools can be among ‘most progressive’ (added 11/12)

Combining Forces to Revive the Soul of New Orleans (added 10/29)

Taking The Wheel(added 10/16)

New Orleans: After the flood, the hard truths(added 10/15)

In New Orleans, the Trashman Will Have to Move Mountains (added 10/15)

Wildlife trickles into New Orleans (added 10/14)

Wading Toward Home (NY Times)

Editorial: Building a new New Orleans (New Orleans Times-Picayune)

Louisiana Politics

Louisiana has always had some interesting politics and politicians. There have been movies made about some of them. In the 288+ years since the founding of New Orleans, never has there been a more interesting political environment, and the theatre of it all is fascinating, humorous, and pathetic all at once. Here are some of the better articles on the current state of affairs:

Kimberly Williamson Butler: Gandhi On the New Orleans Bayous (added 03/11)

Is Earl Long whispering in clerk's ear? (added 03/05)

Recovery Links

Links to pages listing what's open and where:

Quarter Crawl

Life In New Orleans

WWL-TV List of Open Businesses in Orleans Parish

WDSU List of Open Businesses in Orleans Parish

Entergy Recover Page

Early Warnings

Think Katrina was a surprise? Think again. These articles prove otherwise:

New Orleans Times-Picayune: Washing Away (from June 2002!)

Vulnerable Cities: New Orleans

Hurricane preparedness for New Orleans

The Creeping Storm

Gone With The Water

What if Hurricane Ivan Had Not Missed New Orleans?

Drowning New Orleans

News

Here are the best sources for the latest news about Katrina:

NolaRises.com (added 11/12)

NOLA.COM

The Times-Picayune

WWL-TV

WDSU-TV

The FEMA List

If you thought FEMA did a bad job (or especially if you think they did a good job) you need to read these articles:

FEMA won't accept Amtrak's help in evacuations(added 9/11)

FEMA turns away experienced firefighters(added 9/11)

FEMA won't let Red Cross deliver food(added 9/11)

FEMA bars morticians from entering New Orleans(added 9/11)

FEMA blocks 500-boat citizen flotilla from delivering aid(added 9/11)

FEMA turns away generators(added 9/11)

FEMA: "First Responders Urged Not To Respond"(added 9/11)

That last one is real -- not satire but straight from FEMA's website.

Articles

Former Racinians left stranded by Katrina

Six Flags wants out, offers the city a deal (added 07/01)

Tax Revenues Are a Windfall for Louisiana (added 07/01)

In Louisiana, a Sinking Island Wars With Water and the Government (added 07/01)

Corps Faults Itself For Levee Breaks In New Orleans (added 06/03)

Study finds rapid pre-Katrina sinking in New Orleans (added 06/03)

After Katrina, New Fear Along Coast (added 06/03)

Disaster coordinators brace for hurricane season (added 06/03)

Editorial: Hurricane season — stress season, too (added 06/03)

Getting Ready for the Gathering Storm (added 06/03)

Massive New Orleans Flood Gates Delayed (added 05/21)

New Orleans revamps storm plans (added 05/06)

Conservative White Voters Hold Sway in an Altered New Orleans Electoral Landscape (added 05/06)

Jazz Fans Shocked By New Orleans Conditions (added 04/29)

Bothersome Bugs (added 04/29)

New Orleans – A Different Place Without The Displaced (added 04/16)

New Orleans Woman Runs For Mayor of Disneyland (added 04/16)

New Orleans by the Numbers (added 04/16)

Andrew-torn areas awash after Katrina (added 04/08)

Bill Cosby Slammed for New Orleans Comments (added 04/08)

Collegians, on spring break, labor for New Orleans’ recovery (added 04/08)

Spring break '06: New Orleans (added 04/08)

In New Orleans, an industrious kind of spring break (added 04/08)

Rising like the Phoenix (added 04/01)

The good, the bad and the ugly (added 04/01)

Debating a Shipping Shortcut That Turned Against New Orleans(added 03/05)

New Orleans: A Future By The River? (added 03/05)

A Mardi Gras That Means More (added 02/18)

Carnival Sponsor Search Fizzling (added 02/18)

New Orleans Faces Extinction (added 02/11)

New Orleans draws a bead on Mardi Gras (added 01/30)

New Orleans black population at risk (added 01/30)

Tourists Trickling Back Into New Orleans (added 01/07)

Hurricane Takes A Further Toll: Suicides Up In New Orleans (added 12/31)

Stevenson J Palfi, Filmaker Documented New Orleans' Music (added 12/31)

Taken By Storm (added 12/31)

Katrina Death Stats Contradict Racial Complaints(added 12/17)

Homeless for the Holidays Katrina Display Draws Ire (added 12/10)

Three months after Katrina - a visit to New Orleans (added 12/10)

Mardi Gras to the Rescue? Doubts Grow (added 11/26)

Panel Advises New Orleans to Relinquish Purse Strings (added 11/19)

New Orleans Utility Struggles to Relight a City of Darkness(added 11/19)

Burdens of Past Limit New Orleans Future (added 11/12)

New Orleans Marches On With Superdome Repairs (added 10/29)

New Orleans Could Lose 40% of Its Residents(added 10/14)

Breakdowns Mark Path from Hurricane to Anarchy (added 9/11)

Blackwater Mercenaries Deploy in New Orleans (added 9/11)

World stunned as US struggles with Katrina

Chertoff: Katrina Scenario Did Not Exist

Louisiana Philharmonic Left In Dark

New Orleans port stirs again, counts Katrina cost

Aquarium animals to be airlifted out of New Orleans

Opinion

It seems that everyone has an opinion about Katrina. Here are some of the best:

New Orleans: A Geopolitical Prize

An Unnatural Disaster: A Hurricane Exposes the Man-Made Disaster of the Welfare State

Seattle Weekly: Bush Blows Katrina

Photos

Some of the best photo collections:

Before and After Pictures of the Gulf Coast (added 07/01/06)

Life In New Orleans(added 10/06/05)

LA Times: Evacuating New Orleans(added 9/11/05)

NY Times: Storm Paints Damage(added 9/11/05)

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