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The New Orleans City Council is still trying to determine why Bourbon Street lacked permanent security bollards on the morning of the deadly attack, Councilmember Jean-Paul Morrell said Friday ...
Travel has again been slowed on the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway outside New Orleans one day after numerous crashes caused by foggy conditions forced officials to close the span for hours.
Any major storm near Louisiana evokes memories of Hurricane Katrina, the 2005 storm that devastated New Orleans and surrounding areas, killing nearly 1,400 people and causing $125 billion in ...
August 29, 2005 – Although Hurricane Katrina's eye came ashore in lower Plaquemines Parish Louisiana, the resulting storm surge resulted in multiple levee failures in the New Orleans area, flooding approximately 80% of the city, with some places being inundated by more than 15 ft (4.6 m) of water. The failures of the levees were considered ...
New Orleans Item-Tribune: New Orleans: 1924 1958 Began as Daily City Item in 1877 [4] L'Abeille (The New Orleans Bee) New Orleans: 1827 1923 New-Orleans Commercial Bulletin: New Orleans: 1832 1871 [25] New Orleans States-Item: New Orleans: 1958 1980 [26] The New Orleans Tribune: New Orleans: 1864 1870 [27] Opelousas Courier: Opelousas: 1852 ...
The National Weather Service bulletin for the New Orleans region of 10:11 a.m., August 28, 2005, was a particularly dire warning issued by the local Weather Forecast Office in Slidell, Louisiana, warning of the devastation that Hurricane Katrina could wreak upon the Gulf Coast of the United States, and the human suffering that would follow once the storm left the area.
Francine is spreading dangerous conditions across the South Thursday after it slammed into Louisiana with extreme rainfall, life-threatening flooding and destructive winds.
Sandra Wheeler Hester is an activist and former television host from New Orleans. [1] Prior to Hurricane Katrina, she hosted the Hester Report on Public-access television in New Orleans. Her programs were generally critical of local government, particularly the Orleans Parish School Board.