Making landfall on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans with enormous force. The city had faced deadly storms previously, including Hurricane Betsy in 1965, which caused extensive ...

The US government response to Katrina is widely seen as an abject failure that saw poorer, mainly black residents ... A million people left the New Orleans region during Katrina - many did not ...

1 and carving out a grim fraternity of sorts between western North Carolina and New Orleans. "People didn't ... ve seen so ...