Articles about Hurricane Katrina in the Press
Articles about the social, political, and economic impact
Note
[Jan, 2006]: There
has been more press than I can post here.
I will only post certain selections
See this page for more press clippings, mostly on politics and society
Specials -
- New Orleans Times-Picayune, June 2002. Washing Away. A Special Five-Part Series on the danger of hurricanes to South Louisiana and New Orleans in particular. Their prediction three years before Katrina: "It's only a matter of time before South Louisiana takes a direct hit from a major hurricane. Billions have been spent to protect us, but we grow more vulnerable every day."
- New York Times Graphic special, September 2005: Rebuilding New Orleans. Good series of interactive maps and graphics. You'll need a fairly up-to-date computer to display the graphics.
- New York Times Graphic special, October 2, 2005: Katrina’s Diaspora. The victims of Hurricane Katrina have filed for assistance from FEMA from every state. The map shows the distribution and number of the 1.36 million applications as of Sept. 23.
- New York Times Graphic special, October 6, 2005: Vital Shipping Region Struggles Back. The ports along the Mississippi from Baton Rouge through New Orleans to the Gulf.
- See the continually updated information about polling on Katrina at PollingReport.com.
- Brown University, Special mapping site, Katrina and the Built Environment: Spatial and Social Impacts. Examples of maps:
Varieties of Social Capital in Community Disaster Recovery -
- NY Times. October 20, 2005. By Christine Hauser, Sustained by Close Ties, Vietnamese Toil to Rebuild. The Mary Queen of Vietnam Roman Catholic Church, abandoned just a few weeks ago in the deluge, is now bustling with neighborhood groups planning home repairs and giving out tetanus shots. The stage where the Vietnamese residents of this city celebrated Chinese New Year has been transformed, now covered with tables laden with free hot lunches and emergency housing applications.
- NY Times. September 15, 2005. By Jennifer Steinhauer and Campbell Robertson, Areas Isolated After Storm Make Do. In the most far-flung hamlets throughout the devastated regions of Mississippi and Louisiana, thousands of residents neither waited for government nor lamented its absence after the hurricane. They put on their boots, pulled out their tarps and chain saws and got busy. Isolated, experienced in working outdoors and fully equipped with the accoutrements of rural life, these people are quite accustomed to being their own sanitation, social service and utility bureaus. "People here are used to doing for themselves," said Faye Boyd, Franklinton's town clerk. "They didn't wait for FEMA or the parish to do it for them."
- Baton Rouge Advocate, September 10. By Penny Brown Roberts, List compiled to help save Jews in New Orleans. There were 50 of them -- some typed, some handwritten -- on a spreadsheet. The names of those still missing or stranded since Hurricane Katrina barreled ashore a week ago. Before dawn Sunday, a caravan of East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's deputies and volunteers took that list and headed west to find them. They brought with them guns and bullet-proof vests. Flat-bottom boats. A doctor. Ice-cold water. And a Global Positioning System, since many of the homes were submerged in water. Unlike thousands of others who came to help evacuate the city, however, this group of 30 had a specific mission: Saving some of New Orleans' oldest Jewish residents and reuniting them with their families. The list was culled by Baton Rouge businessman Richard Lipsey and the Jewish Federation of New Orleans.
- Baton Rouge Advocate, September 10. By Vicki Ferstel, Katrina leaves torahs untouched; rescuers take Jewish texts to safety. The sacred word of God -- lovingly hand-inscribed in classical Hebrew on scrolls of parchment -- was rescued Saturday from Jewish synagogues in New Orleans and Jefferson Parish.