Homecoming wasn’t the same

Plans to bolster flood protection, drawn up years ago, never addressed the wild card of climate change, which most experts now acknowledge will lift sea levels and trigger more intense storms.

Museum Curator Stan Amerski, who assembled much of the exhibit, is the only employee on the current staff who worked there before Katrina.

While there is no way to determine a priori whether all of these partners see the city’s multi-faceted progress exactly as portrayed it’s by Katrina 10, there are other nonprofits are somewhat less enamored with the Katrina 10 narrative.

The Coast Guard rescued around 34,000 people in New Orleans alone.

The company said it would announce the donation during a forum in New Orleans Friday during which state and local officials, businesses and others will discuss Katrina and its aftermath.

It was very interesting going back to these places as I started to get a sense of what had happened to the people I met back then.

Fox News begins the television remembrances Friday at 10 p.m. with Hurricane Katrina, Storm of a Lifetime. After the closure of Charity Hospital, health workers set up dozens of makeshift clinics on the sidewalk in spots where medical care was most needed – many of which eventually became fully functioning clinics. And Forbes Magazine listed New Orleans as America’s No. 1 “brain magnet”. It also led to an explosive break on a floodwall along the Industrial Canal that devastated every home in the city’s Lower Ninth Ward neighborhood, he said.

It is also easier to get there, with 45 nonstop flights to Louis Armstrong New Orleans global Airport, compared with 42 before Katrina.

“We don’t talk the way anybody else talks, we don’t dance the way anybody else [dances]”, he said. It’s just different. And it’s wonderful.

“But you know what?”

Mud residue is visible in a hurricane-damaged cafeteria at New Orleans Charter Middle School, seen on February 21, 2006. “What we want to be is the best version of our real selves, because we are unique”.

Englehart said the museum has a long-term plan to create a permanent exhibit dedicated to the Katrina response.

“Here we are a decade later, the sun is shining, and New Orleans is smiling once again”, she said. “I’m lookin’ for shrimps that come out of the Gulf or out of Lake Pontchartrain”.

“While in the city, the President will deliver remarks on the region’s rebirth and what’s possible when citizens, city and corporate leaders all work together to lift up their communities and build back in ways that make them more innovative and positioned for economic growth”, the White House said.

Brees, who moved to New Orleans and joined the Saints shortly after Katrina, following a shoulder injury and a failed contract negotiation, says he is grateful to his adopted city for helping him believe in himself. Now they’re coming to show the decade-long transformation. They both have solid jobs. “It’s kind of the southern thing to do, don’t you think?”