It is riveting. Hide Caption While the storm itself did a great deal of damage, its aftermath was catastrophic. The U.S. Congress launched an investigation into government response to the storm and issued a highly critical report in February 2006 entitled, "The failures in response during Katrina spurred a series of reforms initiated by Congress. In 2014 Nagin was convicted of bribery, fraud and money laundering while in office. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) took days to establish operations in New Orleans, and even then did not seem to have a sound plan of action.For one thing, many had nowhere to go. “The family had to swim—with me on my © 2020 A&E Television Networks, LLC. “It’s like when you’ve almost been in a wreck. “The water was two inches from the ceiling, and we were sitting there with our legs dangling. Mrs. York said the neighbors nicknamed themselves the “attic sitters.”If you ever wanted to see the extraordinary experience many ordinary Mississippians had in Katrina, watch the Yorks’ video. He bought his home in 1953; Hurricane Katrina destroyed it. I’d like to thank them for sharing it.

Hundreds of thousands of evacuees scattered far and wide. They had been in the attic since about 9 a.m.Outside, other neighbors were wading out, or were on their roofs, checking on each other. Tens of thousands of people desperate for food, water and shelter broke into the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center complex, but they found nothing there but chaos. Levee breaches led to massive flooding, and many people charged that the federal government was slow to meet the needs of the people affected by the storm. But an Subscribe for fascinating stories connecting the past to the present.On August 29, 2005, the lively city of New Orleans was changed forever as Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast of the United States in the early morning hours. When the storm made landfall, it had a Category 3 rating on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale–it brought sustained winds of 100–140 miles per hour–and stretched some 400 miles across. Eventually, nearly 80 percent of the city was under some quantity of water.Many people acted heroically in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

It was the deadliest hurricane to hit the Western Hemisphere in more than 200 years. Brother Ronald Hingle, then principal of In October 1780, a powerful storm slammed the islands of the Caribbean, killing more than 20,000 people. By 9 a.m., low-lying places like St. Bernard Parish and the Ninth Ward were under so much water that people had to scramble to attics and rooftops for safety. Neighborhoods that sat below sea level, many of which housed the city’s poorest and most vulnerable people, were at great risk of flooding.The day before Katrina hit, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin issued the city’s first-ever mandatory evacuation order. Cheryl and Jerry York share their harrowing Hurricane Katrina experience through home video.One of the most amazing things about Cheryl and Jerry York’s harrowing Hurricane Katrina experience is that it was not an uncommon one.They rode out the storm’s tidal surge in their attic, with water literally lapping at the ceiling and forcing them to ponder their own mortality before it receded. Louisiana Governor Blanco declined to seek re-election in 2007 and Mayor Nagin left office in 2010. Photos: Remembering Hurricane Katrina A woman gets carried out of floodwaters after being trapped in her home in Orleans Parish, Louisiana, on August 30, 2005. Sophisticated weather forecasting technology didn’t Survivors: Poet Shelton “Shakespear” Alexander evacuated his home in St. Bernard Parish, near New Orleans, during Hurricane Katrina and headed to the Superdome, where he used his video camera to document the dire situation unfolding there. But so did many of their neighbors in the Bayou View neighborhood in Gulfport. By nightfall, almost 80 percent of the city’s population had evacuated. All Rights Reserved.Michael Appleton/NY Daily News Archive/Getty Images

Chief among them was a requirement that all levels of government train to execute coordinated plans of disaster response. Cheryl had ridden out Camille with her parents in … The Yorks had lived in Bayou View — about two miles inland — since 1990 and had weathered many storms there.“A neighbor lived there during Camille and said they didn’t get any water,” Cheryl York said.

And officials from different branches of government were quick to direct the blame at each other. When the storm surge (as high as 9 meters in some places) arrived, it overwhelmed many of the city’s unstable levees and drainage canals. Meanwhile, it was nearly impossible to leave New Orleans: Poor people especially, without cars or anyplace else to go, were stuck. You’ll see this when The Clarion-Ledger begins airing chapters — minimally edited — of their homemade documentary on Monday, part of our Katrina 10 Years Later multimedia series. (For example, some 112,000 of New Orleans’ nearly 500,000 people did not have access to a car.)
The owners of a nursing home where 35 patients died after Hurricane Katrina were acquitted Friday of negligent homicide and cruelty charges for … Kathleen Babineaux Blanco of Louisiana New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin argued that there was no clear designation of who was in charge, telling reporters, “The state and federal government are doing a two-step dance. Hurricane Katrina was a destructive Category 5 storm that made landfall on the U.S. Gulf Coast in August 2006. It will be released online in five segments, over five days starting Monday — along with numerous stories and videos we began posting last week and will continue releasing this week, culminating with a special section on Aug. 30.The Yorks, like so many other families, used Hurricane Camille in 1969 as their benchmark when deciding to ride out Katrina in their home. It was a Sunday, so he was at home with his family when the storm flooded the roads with water six to eight feet above street-level. Hundreds of thousands of people in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama were displaced from their homes, and experts estimate that Katrina caused more than $100 billion in damage.The tropical depression that became Hurricane Katrina formed over the Bahamas on August 23, 2005, and meteorologists were soon able to warn people in the Gulf Coast states that a major storm was on its way. Known as the Great Hurricane of 1780, it is among the deadliest storms ever recorded.