Thornton, lead executive with the company that runs and manages the Superdome, was there in 2005 and remains the top man ...

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 ...

IT’S HARD TO LOOK BACK. I DON’T LIKE TO LOOK BACK AT KATRINA. IT WAS DEVASTATING. WELL, HAPPENING NOW. DAY TWO OF THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER CONFERENCE IS GOING ON, AS YOU JUST HEARD THERE.

When it made landfall in southeastern Louisiana, Katrina was a Category 3 hurricane with winds of 125 ... of FEMA on Monday and he "made it clear that there are going to be changes in FEMA." ...