City of Hope:New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina
This page is a portal to many Hurricane Katrina websites found on the World Wide Web. It is a component of the City of Hope: New Orleans After Hurricane Katrina exhibition. The above navigation bar separates these sites into various categories: the storm, breaching of the levees, stories, rebuilding New Orleans, oral histories, geographical mapping of destruction photographs, statistical analysis, and the diaspora.
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Hurricane Katrina Video A Hurricane Katrina video shot by an unknown person from inside the Beau Rivage Hotel parking lot in Biloxi, Mississippi. The video starts calmly and moves to a crescendo as the tidal surge comes ashore.
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Diaspora Relocation Map A map from The New York Times depicting where the evacuees from Hurricane Katrina filed for assistance from FEMA. The map shows the distribution of the 1.36 million individual assistance applications as of September 23, 2005, from every state. |
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Tourist Story A blog from therawstory.com about two tourist employees of the San Fransico Fire Department as they struggle to leave New Orleans in the immediate days after Hurricane Katrina. Their misadventure begins in the French Quarter and leads them over the Crescent City Connection where they are turned away at gunpoint by the Gretna police. After camping out on the I-10 they are eventually airlifted to Louis Armstrong International Airport. |
Interactive Deluge Timeline An interactive animated timeline graphic of the levee failures which resulted in the deluge of New Orleans. By The Times-Picayune's staff artist Dan Swenson. |
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The Katrina Index The Brookings Institution compiles the Katrina Index to track the variables of the post-Katrina recovery. It provides statistics on housing, the economy, and essential services. |
Time-lapse demolition of a Lakeview Cottage It only takes a day for a house to be demolished and carted away, a common occurance in the Lakeview sub-division of New Orleans. This movie taken of his own house demise is courtesy of Ray Broussard of Maritime New Media. |