Parks’s team estimated that, among Medicare patients alone, tropical cyclones are associated with nearly seventeen thousand excess hospitalizations per decade in the United States. “It’s shocking, to be…
Read more The Hidden Devastation of HurricanesEverybody 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 a much larger place in…
Read more The New Orleans That Hurricane Katrina RevealedPLAQUEMINES PARISH, Louisiana — Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina, the cancellation of a $3 billion wetland restoration project has upended a hard-won consensus about how to rebuild this…
Read more Katrina inspired a $3B wetlands rebuilding project. Louisiana just killed it.Twenty years ago to the day, Hurricane Katrina made landfall along the Gulf Coast, wreaking havoc especially on the city of New Orleans in Louisiana. Twenty years ago…
Read more 20 years later, Gulf Coast natives remember the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina – WTOP NewsIt’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 $125 billion in damage along…
Read more From Pittsburgh to Mississippi: Hurricane Katrina 20 years laterFamily photos of the aftermath that Hurricane Katrina wrought on New Orleans in 2005. Photos courtesy of the Duncan family. Above: Photo of the photos by Tabius McCoy/The…
Read more After Katrina, Atlanta became their Second HomeWhen the call came out to help their neighbors, the Arkansas Army National Guard and the Air National Guard responded. Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast in late…
Read more Bringing order and hope: Arkansas Guard’s Katrina mission rememberedIt’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 more. The storm’s impact overwhelmed…
Read more FEMA Staffers Warned of Looming ‘Katrina-Level’ Disaster, Then Got SuspendedThis April, when a 1,000-year storm drenched South Florida, my father and older sister were among the thousands of people abruptly hit with severe flash flooding. They made…
Read more Pack Your Memories Into Your Disaster BagThe last time Lee Hamm was working in New Orleans’s Charity Hospital, critically ill patients were being hauled up and down dark, sweltering stairways as nurses hand-pumped oxygen…
Read more One of America’s Oldest Hospitals Lay Abandoned. Then a University Stepped In.Karen Nix was working at Tulane Medical Center, monitoring the vitals of patients, when the levees failed and Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans on August 29, 2005. By…
Read more A Katrina survivor with a disability tells her storyCNN — Just weeks after Ron DeSantis made a very public display of his efforts to keep migrants from coming to Florida, Hurricane Ian’s destruction is drawing a…
Read more Undaunted by DeSantis, immigrant workers are heading to Florida to help with hurricane cleanup | CNN
