Walmart CEO pledges $25M in honor of Hurricane Katrina

This combination of August 30, 2005 and July 29, 2015 photos shows downtown New Orleans floolded by Hurricane Katrina and the same area a decade later.

Phil Bildner shares the fictional story of real-life Cornelius Washington, a sanitation worker who sang and danced while working through the French Quarter, in “Marvelous Cornelius: Hurricane Katrina and the Spirit of New Orleans“.

Estimated population in 2014 was 384,320 compared to 494,294 in 2005.

Beneath the frantic abyss of looters and bodies and desperation that New Orleans became last week, there’s a decadent city of crawfish bisque and sparkling jazz, a ferocious city that beat back the British army, a tenacious city that has survived plague and fires, a seductive and sultry placed beloved by so many.

With backing from the Rockefeller and Kellogg Foundations along with the New Orleans region’s smaller foundations, plus the apparatus of the public sector, the Katrina 10 narrative will be extensively pitched to a variety of audiences.

The city had 9.5 million visitors last year compared to 10.1 million in 2004, the year before Katrina, according to the New Orleans Convention and Visitors Bureau.

Since then, climate scientists at NASA have made huge strides in hurricane monitoring and now very literally have a much clearer picture of how these storms form and behave. The storm had abated.

New Orleans is still majority black, but the numbers have fallen from roughly 67 percent before the storm to about 60 percent today. Latin and Vietnamese eateries, long established in certain pockets in and around the city, have modernized and gone mainstream.

The book, which details a prolific yet largely unknown 19th century architect, is co-published by The Historic New Orleans Collection and Princeton Architectural Press, written by Brantley with Victor McGee and features photographs by Brantley and Jan White Brantley. Classic restaurants like Galatoire’s, Brennan’s and Antoine’s are thriving, but so are those run by newer chefs. President Bush, who was on a five-week trip previous to the Katrina’s touchdown, finally reduce brief his brief and stepped into the fray of catastrophe aid planning and response.

“It’s been under construction for two years and has two more years of construction to be completed”, he said. Even the rebuilding of Lower Manhattan post-9/11 recast New York’s financial district as a tourist hub.

That’s why the attention of educators and education reformers around the country is focused on the Crescent City. They say, you’ve been here for 10 years, this is your home.

Hotels have played a role in the comeback. “The levees ring the city and we have a pretty good pumping situation”, Landrieu said, reinforcing that The Great Wall is proof of the city taking steps in the right direction. Since Thursday, an airplane hangar at Marietta’s Dobbins Air Reserve Base has been the first stop for hundreds of exhausted, huddled masses evacuated from New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. “New Orleanians and its visitors are the reason this city recovered and is now stronger than ever, which makes this display that reflects these heroes so terrific”, said Jim Oliver, general manager, The Ritz-Carlton, New Orleans. Pile onto that historic issues of race and class inequalities.

The anniversary of Hurricane Katrina is on August 29.

It tells the story of the Louisiana National Guard’s work and that of Guardsmen from 48 states and territories during Katrina and its aftermath.

Yes, some neighborhoods have been rebuilt and are fully populated again.

Gary Rivlin signs “Katrina: After the Flood” at 6 p.m. Wednesday at Maple Street Book Shop in New Orleans.