President Obama comes to New Orleans

President Barack Obama will visit New Orleans, Louisiana, next week to check on the 10-year effort to rebuild the southern U.S. city from the devastation wreaked there by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. But he had another message for former Big Easy residents: He’d love to have you back.

A decade ago, Hurricane Katrina stormed through the Gulf Coast, destroying the New Orleans area as many in the city lost relatives while others were forced to relocate and start their lives over in new cities.

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Ten years ago, Hurricane Katrina battered New Orleans. The former president is expected to deliver remarks on his thoughts about New Orleans 10 years after the disaster. In the days that would follow, their numbers increased-eventually swelling to almost one million-as their city came under siege from flood waters that rose when the levee system failed.

The storm stands as the costliest natural disaster ever in the United States, having caused $135 billion in damage. Criticism for the response to Katrina was leveled at then-President George W. Bush, then-Gov.

Obama will be joined on next week’s visit by Craig Fugate, administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Money has also been spent on mitigation projects to help protect against another major storm. In a report on a subsequent hurricane, a national media weather report described Mississippi as “the land mass between New Orleans and Mobile, further angering Mississippians”.