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We're less than 50 days out from the official start of the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season, and first responders and ...
Making landfall on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans with enormous force. The city had faced deadly storms previously, including Hurricane Betsy in 1965, which caused extensive ...
As the anniversary of the harrowing event approaches, New Orleans natives still grapple with its effects on their mental ...
We hope this is just a one-year happenstance that we’re facing this year and we’ll see our friends and folks and comrades ...
WDSU Chief Meteorologist Emeritus Margaret Orr spoke at the National Hurricane Center conference in New Orleans Tuesday.
(Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images) Hurricane Katrina rampaged New Orleans on August 29, 2005, when dozens of levees failed, leaving vast swaths of the city swamped, homes damaged and lives uprooted.
How mind-boggling to think that so much Hurricane Katrina history is contained in a ribbed fragment of concrete. I was a Tulane University history professor that August of 2005, when the hurricane ...
Hurricanes Helene, Milton and Beryl were so nasty last year that their names are being retired. These storms caused more than ...
When Hurricane Katrina struck, Leah Chase was the chef and co-owner of the legendary New Orleans restaurant, Dooky Chase, a landmark in the city’s oldest black neighborhood. Chase saw her ...
The only problem, of course, is that Katrina ... fact, 29% of Republicans in the Bayou State blame Obama for the federal government’s sluggish and sloppy response to the 2005 hurricane ...