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Hurricane Katrina

The latest news and comment on Hurricane Katrina.
The Guardian is marking the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina with the series Hurricane Katrina: 10 years on

August 2022

  • Caravan of child evacuees displaced during Hurricane Katrina used in Katrina Babies

    ‘I didn’t understand my trauma’: how Hurricane Katrina marked New Orleans’ young

    In powerful documentary Katrina Babies, the children and teenagers who lived through the 2005 disaster grapple with their trauma at an older age
  • Brad Pitt's Make it Right homes in New Orleans’s Lower Ninth Ward.

    Brad Pitt foundation agrees on $20.5m settlement to owners of faulty post-Katrina houses

    Lawsuit was brought by owners after Pitt’s supposedly sustainable, flood-proof homes were plagued by mold, leaks and rot
  • Five Days At Memorial

    TV review
    Five Days at Memorial review – this extraordinary post-Katrina drama is utterly brutal and utterly compelling

    Every performance is quietly brilliant in this series, set in a New Orleans medical centre in the days following the 2005 tragedy – where medics do their best in unrelentingly terrible conditions

February 2022

  • APTOPIX People Brad Pitt<br>Actor Brad Pitt talks about his plan to build homes in the Lower 9th Ward in New Orleans, Monday, Dec. 3, 2007. Pitt is launching his latest project to build affordable, environmentally friendly homes in the area devastated by Hurricane Katrina. The hot pink tents represent where eco-friendly houses will be built. (AP Photo/Bill Haber) ... 03-12-2007 ... Photo by: Bill Haber/AP/PA Photos.URN:5403136

    Mold, leaks, rot: how Brad Pitt’s post-Katrina housing project went horribly wrong

    The non-profit project was launched to feverish buzz with support of celebrities from Snoop Dogg to Ellen DeGeneres to Bill Clinton

January 2022

  • FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Biden inspects the damage from Hurricane Ida<br>FILE PHOTO: A view of flood damaged buildings are seen as U.S. President Joe Biden (not pictured) inspects the damage from Hurricane Ida on the Marine One helicopter during an aerial tour of communities in Laffite, Grand Isle, Port Fourchon and Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, U.S. September 3, 2021. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/Pool/File Photo

    ‘Everything is a fight’: the island still reeling months after Ida battered Louisiana

    Grand Isle took the first punch from the category 4 hurricane that became one of America’s most powerful storms and the worst in the island’s history

August 2021

  • A truck is seen in heavy winds and rain from Hurricane Ida in Bourg, Louisiana.

    Hurricane Ida: New Orleans loses power as category 4 storm hits

    Storm hits land on 16th anniversary of Katrina, with Louisiana governor confident levees will hold

March 2021

  • People take shelter at a furniture store that transformed into a warming station during the blackouts in Houston, Texas, on 17 February.

    The Katrina survivors who fled devastation only to freeze in Texas

    In the wake of the 2005 hurricane, many New Orleanians settled in Houston – and nearly two decades later they feel let down by infrastructure failures

August 2020

  • Sarah M. Broom.

    Books interview
    Sarah M Broom: 'There's no easy way to write about your family'

    The award-winning author on her New Orleans memoir, the ties of neighbourhood, and how Hurricane Katrina changed her life

May 2020

  • Arwa Mahdawi

    George W Bush paved the way for Trump – to rehabilitate him is appalling

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • Hayley Atwell

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in radio and podcasts: True Spies; Floodlines; Iain Lee; Slow Radio – review

October 2018

  • Investigators stand in front of a New Orleans Police department vehicle in which one officer was shot and killed while transporting a prisoner in New Orleans, Saturday, June 20, 2015. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

    White man who shot three black men during Hurricane Katrina pleads guilty

    Roland Bourgeois Jr, who pleaded guilty to a hate crime, will face five to 10 years in prison for the shooting

July 2018

  • Reconciliation … Hannah Britland as Boo Killebrew and David Schaal as her father Larry in The Play About My Dad.

    The Play About My Dad review – a father in the eye of the storm

    Boo Killebrew cleverly evokes the havoc of Hurricane Katrina through her doctor father’s memories of the disaster and the imperilled characters they recall

June 2018

  • Jill Abramson

    The forced separation of families is Trump's 'Katrina moment'

    Jill Abramson
    Donald Trump is making George W Bush’s same fatal mistake by showing heartlessness in a time of crisis

May 2018

  • Jesmyn Ward, American novelist and author of “Sing, Buried, Sing”

    Jesmyn Ward: ‘Black girls are silenced, misunderstood and underestimated'

  • Gary Younge

    From Windrush to Grenfell, the powerful only see tragedy when it suits them

    Gary Younge

October 2017

  • 'You've thrown our budget a little out of whack', Trump tells Puerto Rico – video

    Donald Trump has made his first visit to Puerto Rico since the US territory was pummelled by Hurricane Maria nearly two weeks ago

September 2017

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    A history of hurricanes: how US presidents have responded - video explainer

    George W Bush’s presidency never fully recovered from his botched handling of Hurricane Katrina. Barack Obama won re-election just days after Hurricane Sandy struck. So how can presidents respond effectively to natural disasters? And how has Donald Trump managed the response to Harvey and Irma?
  • Floods Hinder Recovery Efforts In Southeast Texas<br>ORANGE, TX - SEPTEMBER 06: Discarded items sit outside of a flooded home in Orange as Texas slowly moves toward recovery from the devastation of Hurricane Harvey on September 6, 2017 in Orange, Texas. Almost a week after Hurricane Harvey ravaged parts of the state, some neighborhoods still remained flooded and without electricity. While downtown Houston is returning to business, thousands continue to live in shelters, hotels and other accommodations as they contemplate their future. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

    Like Hurricane Katrina, Harvey poses a real threat to US public housing

    Glyn Robbins
    Natural disaster is bad enough, but in New Orleans, the clean-up operation swept away vital services. Some fear that may also happen in Houston
  • Harvey devastation: the flood-swollen Burnet Bay along the Houston Ship Channel in Texas.

    Harvey aid: White House to ask Congress for initial $5.9bn

    Emergency package likely to be followed by further requests that could exceed $110bn for victims of Katrina

August 2017

  • John Utesch, Brad Johns and Wayne Johns, boatmen from Louisiana, discuss rescue sites in Houston.

    'We ain’t doing no damn good': volunteer rescuers struggle in Houston

    The ‘Cajun navy’ force of helpers from Louisiana are hitting an unexpected problem in the Harvey-flooded city – residents declining to evacuate
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