Hurricane Katrina - 10 year anniversary

I remember following Hurricane Katrina on my primitive dial-up. It was Amy Goodman and Democracy Now's excellent coverage that kept me informed.

I remember them encountering the body of a black man in the midst of the floods and how between them the city authorities and police did not want to come and remove it.

The social inequality has continues to worsen and the city is no safer than it was 10 years ago

Ten years since Hurricane Katrina

Remembering Hurricane Katrina 10 Years Later: Voices from the Storm

President Barack Obama is in New Orleans today to mark the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. According to prepared remarks, Obama will declare: "What started out as a natural disaster became a man-made one—a failure of government  to look out for its own citizens." 

In 2005, Democracy Now! was on the ground in the days following the storm that devastated the Gulf Coast, killing more than 1,800 people and forcing more than 1 million people to evacuate. We turn now to excerpts of Democracy Now!’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina

New Orleans After Katrina: Inequality Soars as Poor Continue to Be Left Behind in City’s "Recovery"

When disaster strikes: Is New Orleans
prepared for another Hurricane
Katrina?