Wal-Mart commits $25M for disasters as Katrina anniversary nears

In the years since Katrina, many of those who left have returned to New Orleans.

Powerful storm reminds Cobb residents of …

When its gates are closed, the new barrier is created to completely block storm surge at a critical point where it entered New Orleans after Katrina.

The artifacts include a tattered U.S. flag that remained on a pole through Katrina in Duncan Plaza at New Orleans’ City Hall. Al Roker and Stephanie Abrams will report live from New Orleans, followed by Michael Lowry and Cantore in Gulfport, Miss.

Next week, President Obama will visit New Orleans on the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.

Particulars of the plan to fund restoration efforts might be mentioned at a Friday afternoon discussion board on Katrina.

More cruises depart out of the Port of New Orleans, too.

Their reasons for staying in Houston have to do with practicality, not lifestyle.

New Orleans native Wendell Pierce, an actor who was in the New Orleans-based HBO drama “Treme”, started the non-profit, Pontchartrain Park Community Development Corp., to build new affordable solar and geothermal homes in the area for families displaced by Katrina. So far, he’s succeeded.

The hurricane is considered the costliest natural disaster in US history, with experts estimating more than $100billion of damage was caused.

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.

“And I get a sense that everybody that came down from other states, they were feeling the same way”, she said.

“It was as if you were seeing this happen to our neighbors, and you get this automatic internal response to want to go out and help”, she said. She says she certainly had never been to Cobb County. “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.

Path of Hurricane Katrina. In addition to financial donations, food, clothing, personal items, and other physical donations are needed as well.

In 2005, the Category 3 hurricane slammed the Gulf Coast, destroying more than 600,000 homes.

WEST COBB – Gulf evacuees brought to the Lost Mountain Park Recreation Center off Dallas Highway in west Cobb are praising their treatment there.

The Lower Ninth Ward, which experienced catastrophic flooding during Hurricane Katrina, has had a much slower recovery than most New Orleans neighborhoods. And the documentary Wuerffel’s Way, about former University of Florida and New Orleans Saints quarterback Danny Wuerffel leading recovery efforts for the Desire Street Academy in New Orleans, will premiere on the SEC Network on Tuesday, September 1, at 9 P.M. ET.

Hurricane Katrina’s deadly winds tore up roofs, yanked trees from the ground, and pushed towering walls of seawater miles past the coast.

MARIETTA – Think of it as Ellis Island into Georgia.