There was before. And then, suddenly, there was after. Between the two came Katrina, whose official landfall roughly traced the Louisiana-Mississippi state line — much as Hurricane Camille did 36 ...

Two decades ago, students were scattered in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. I went to Scotlandville and Baton Rouge. I had just May 15, May 25th, so August 29th. I was just 15. I'm leaving middle ...

Hurricane Katrina roared ashore in late August 2005, doing more than physically devastating New Orleans and the entire Gulf Coast. Katrina also exposed layers of systemic failures − in infrastructure, ...

My mother doesn’t have any of her baby pictures. Years of storms washed them away. She grew up in southeast Louisiana—hurricane country—and I did, too. It’s a place where some names aren’t just names.

Melvin Cohea wound through the flooded streets of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. He was evacuated five days after the ...

BEFORE: New Orleans on August 26, 2000. (NASA image by Jesse Allen using data provided by USGS Center for EROS and the Landsat Project Science Office at Goddard Space Flight Center.) 80% of New ...

HOUSTON – When Jermaine Moore needs a haircut, he looks for barbers from New Orleans. At a Shaving Grace barbershop in the southeast Houston area, he's found one. "New Orleans barbers cut different," ...