Sheri Fink’s ‘Five Days at Memorial’ Remembering Hurricane Katrina: Portraits of Tragic Loss. Chaîne de podcastingneworleans. HURRICANE KATRINA Documentary (PART 2) The Times-Picayune on NOLA.com. Six years after Katrina, slow progress on levees - US news - Life. NEW ORLEANS — More than six years after Hurricane Katrina's rampage, authorities have taken only halting steps toward identifying weaknesses in a nationwide patchwork of levees intended to protect millions of Americans' lives and property during potentially catastrophic floods.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, accused of building substandard levees and floodwalls that failed when Katrina swamped the Gulf Coast in 2005, has spent $56 million since then developing the initial phase of a national levee inventory as required by Congress. The Corps on Thursday was releasing a database with information about nearly 14,000 miles of levees under its jurisdiction. But the inventory doesn't include what is believed to be more than 100,000 additional miles of levees not covered by the Corps' safety program. Some are little more than mounds of earth piled up more than a century ago to protect farm fields. New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina, and the day the American Psyche changed. Bruce Springsteen has a new album coming out and his new song hints at New Orleans and Katrina again.
A clear change in tone appeared to happen in Springsteen following what he saw in New Orleans and it was certainly understandable. It was the first time that government appeared to not care what happened to its own citizens. Even the networks seemed surprised when their own anchors couldn't ignore the bodies floating by them. Of course much of the national guard wasn't available because for some reason they were in Iraq instead trying to rebuild that country instead of their own back yards. For a time Blackwater, or America's rent a soldier, had to come in and bring law and order. Reportage vidéo web - Nouvelle-Orléans, conséquences du cyclone Katrina 3 ans après : Geo.fr.
American Experience. American Experience. After Fanfare, Hurricane Grants Leave Little Mark. Interactive Narratives - The Best in Multimedia Storytelling and Multimedia Journalism. Mapping the Recovery of New Orleans - Interactive Feature. Flashflood. Topic: Lower Ninth Ward. Tours and Detours: A Self-Guided Tour Through the Built and Natural Environment of the 9th Ward, New Orleans, LA. Hurricane Katrina - News - Times Topics. Updated: Sept. 25, 2012 Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast with devastating force at daybreak on Aug. 29, 2005, pummeling a region that included the fabled city of New Orleans and heaping damage on neighboring Mississippi.
In all, more than 1,700 people were killed and hundreds of thousands of others displaced. Packing 145-mile-an-hour winds as it made landfall, the category 3 storm left more than a million people in three states without power and submerged highways even hundreds of miles from its center. The hurricane’s storm surge — a 29-foot wall of water pushed ashore when the hurricane struck the Gulf Coast — was the highest ever measured in the United States. The Lower 9: A Story of Home-A documentary on New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward. New Orleans - Black Blues. Revoir le reportage (real video - 6mn17) Ce début de juin marque le début de la saison des cyclones aux Etats Unis... et on pense forcément à la Nouvelle Orléans : 10 mois après le passage de Katrina, la ville est en train de se reconstruire, mais change de visage.
Avant la catastrophe, ce berceau du jazz ne comptait que 30 % de blanc, aujourd'hui ils sont majoritaire représentant 70 % de la population. Chandra Mc Cormick est photographe. Elle est née dans le quartier Lower Ninth Ward, y a habité et travaillé toute sa vie. Avant Katrina c'était un district pauvre où vivaient surtout des afro-américains. The Changing Landscape of the Lower Ninth Ward - Interactive Feature. FRONTLINE: Law & Disorder - An on-air and online investigation into questionable shootings by the New Orleans Police Department in the wake of Katrina. Watch The Full Program Online. Storm That Drowned a City. Skip to Main Content Use one of the services below to sign in to PBS: You've just tried to add this video to My List.
But first, we need you to sign in to PBS using one of the services below. You've just tried to add this show to My List. But first, we need you to sign in to PBS using one of the services below. By creating an account, you acknowledge that PBS may share your information with our member stations and our respective service providers, and that you have read and understand the Privacy Policy(opens in new window) and Terms of Use(opens in new window). Blogger Ashley Morris provides some of the words for John Goodman's HBO 'Treme' character. This is the first post of a multi-part series of online profiles of real New Orleanians from which some of the characters in HBO’s “Treme” were drawn.
Others to come include Kermit Ruffins, Donald Harrison Jr., Davis Rogan and Susan Spicer. Here is an interview in which co-creator David Simon discusses his process in building the “Treme” characters from some of these real people. All of the posts will eventually be combined into a longer piece for the Times-Picayune, so consider them a work in progress. Set in post-Katrina New Orleans, “Treme” debuts at 9 p.m. Sunday. Treme (TV series) Treme (/trəˈmeɪ/ trə-MAY) is an American television drama series created by David Simon and Eric Overmyer that aired on HBO.
The series premiered on April 11, 2010, and concluded on December 29, 2013, comprising four seasons and 36 episodes. It takes its name from Tremé, a neighborhood of New Orleans.[1] The series begins three months after Hurricane Katrina as the residents, including musicians, chefs, Mardi Gras Indians, and other New Orleanians, try to rebuild their lives, their homes and their unique culture in the aftermath of the 2005 hurricane.[1][2][3] Blue Velvet (digital project) Blue Velvet is an online digital history project about the city of New Orleans both before and after Hurricane Katrina.
The project was published in the fifth issue of Vectors Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular, entitled "Difference. " The full title of the project is "Blue Velvet: Redressing New Orleans in Katrina's Wake. " Blue Velvet was created through the collaboration of David Theo Goldberg, Director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI), and a graduate research assistant, Stefka Hristova. These two were assisted in the implementation of the site by the digital artist and designer Erik Loyer, currently creative director of the journal. Effects of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. As the center of Hurricane Katrina passed southeast of New Orleans on August 29, 2005, winds downtown were in the Category 3 range with frequent intense gusts and tidal surge.
Hurricane-force winds were experienced throughout the city, although the most severe portion of Katrina missed the city, hitting nearby St. Bernard and Plaquemines parishes. Hurricane Katrina made its final landfall in eastern St. Tammany Parish. The western eye wall passed directly over St. For Louisiana news, sports, politics, New Orleans, US, World news, sports and information. Five Years Later: Hurricane Katrina.