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The Hidden Devastation of Hurricanes
[ad_1] Parks’s team estimated that, among Medicare patients alone, tropical cyclones are associated with nearly seventeen thousand excess hospitalizations per decade in the United…
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The New Orleans That Hurricane Katrina Revealed
[ad_1] Everybody loves New Orleans. It’s only the fifty-fourth largest city in the United States—down from fifth largest two hundred years ago—but it occupies…
US News
Katrina inspired a $3B wetlands rebuilding project. Louisiana just killed it.
[ad_1] PLAQUEMINES PARISH, Louisiana — Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina, the cancellation of a $3 billion wetland restoration project has upended a hard-won consensus…
Washington DC Local News
20 years later, Gulf Coast natives remember the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina – WTOP News
[ad_1] Twenty years ago to the day, Hurricane Katrina made landfall along the Gulf Coast, wreaking havoc especially on the city of New Orleans…
US News
From Pittsburgh to Mississippi: Hurricane Katrina 20 years later
[ad_1] It’s been 20 years since one of the worst hurricanes ever hit the U.S. Hurricane Katrina killed more than 13-hundred people and caused…
Atlanta, Georgia Local News
After Katrina, Atlanta became their Second Home
[ad_1] Family photos of the aftermath that Hurricane Katrina wrought on New Orleans in 2005. Photos courtesy of the Duncan family. Above: Photo of…
US News
Bringing order and hope: Arkansas Guard’s Katrina mission remembered
[ad_1] When the call came out to help their neighbors, the Arkansas Army National Guard and the Air National Guard responded. Hurricane Katrina struck…
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FEMA Staffers Warned of Looming ‘Katrina-Level’ Disaster, Then Got Suspended
[ad_1] It’s been 20 years since Hurricane Katrina slammed into the U.S. Gulf Coast, killing nearly 1,400 people and displacing up to 1.2 million…
Health
Pack Your Memories Into Your Disaster Bag
[ad_1] This April, when a 1,000-year storm drenched South Florida, my father and older sister were among the thousands of people abruptly hit with…
Education
One of America’s Oldest Hospitals Lay Abandoned. Then a University Stepped In.
[ad_1] The last time Lee Hamm was working in New Orleans’s Charity Hospital, critically ill patients were being hauled up and down dark, sweltering…
Lifestyle
A Katrina survivor with a disability tells her story
[ad_1] Karen Nix was working at Tulane Medical Center, monitoring the vitals of patients, when the levees failed and Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans…
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Undaunted by DeSantis, immigrant workers are heading to Florida to help with hurricane cleanup | CNN
[ad_1] CNN — Just weeks after Ron DeSantis made a very public display of his efforts to keep migrants from coming to Florida, Hurricane…