Left to right: Kenneth Avery, Brittany Penn, Adolph Bynum Sr., Marguerite Doyle Johnston and New Orleans Councilman Eugene Green Jr. all hail from the Ninth Ward of New Orleans, La. Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina flooded their neighborhood, they share their stories. Camille Farrah Lenain for NPR hide caption toggle caption Camille Farrah Lenain for NPR Twenty years ago last …
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Left to right: Kenneth Avery, Brittany Penn, Adolph Bynum Sr., Marguerite Doyle Johnston and New Orleans Councilman Eugene Green Jr. all hail from the Ninth Ward of New Orleans, La. Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina flooded their neighborhood, they share their stories. Camille Farrah Lenain for NPR hide caption toggle caption Camille Farrah Lenain for NPR Twenty years ago last …
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Tulane opened its season with a 23-3 win against Northwestern wearing helmets that were noticeably missing any decals, honoring the 20th anniversary of the Green Wave’s 2005 squad playing in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Head coach Jon Sumrall said his team wanted to go even further but were denied by their Big Ten opponents. “I’m going to say one …
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Read More »Tulane coach Jon Sumrall said that Northwestern denied his team’s request to wear white jerseys on Saturday to honor the 2005 Green Wave team. Friday was the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s landfall in the city of New Orleans. The hurricane is one of the worst natural disasters in United States history; a majority of New Orleans was flooded and …
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Two decades after Hurricane Katrina, survivors can still describe in detail what they faced in the days after the storm devastated the Gulf Coast. In New Orleans, many initially thought they had escaped the worst, that is, until the storm surge overwhelmed the levees, breaking the city’s floodwalls. As the days went on, the situation became worse and worse. Hurricane …
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Hurricane Katrina was described as “a slow-motion catastrophe” on “60 Minutes” on Sept. 4, 2005, six days after slamming the Gulf Coast. Twenty years later, the storm is known as the costliest and one of the deadliest to ever hit the United States. Katrina first made landfall as a Category 1 storm in Florida on Aug. 25, 2005. It then …
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