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Category: Hurricane Katrina
Images of Hurricane Katrina
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NEPA Emergency Procedures for Post-Katrina Levee Repair
USACE NEPA Questions & Answers USACE Alternative Arrangements NEPA Process USACE Alternative Arrangements NEPA Process Appendix
Louisiana Governor Jindal Officially Declares Coastal Restoration a Denial of Climate Change
Jindal Katrina Letter August 26, 2015 The President 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW Washington, DC 20500 Dear Mr. President, This week it will be a pleasure to welcome you to the great State of Louisiana and to meet with you in…
Hurricane Katrina 10 years later: Resources
Images of Hurricane Katrina Damage Litigation related to Hurricane Katrina General Information
Cost of Hurricane Katrina Relief and Rebuilding
Erwann O. Michel-Kerjan, Mortgages and Disasters A Ticking Bomb? (2014) Hurricane Katrina Fact File – Insurance Information Institute (2010) Towers Watson, Hurricane Katrina: Analysis of the Impact on the Insurance Industry (2005) After Hurricane Katrina: How federal aid helped the…
Land Area Changes in Coastal Louisiana After the 2005 Hurricanes: A Series of Three Maps
Moderator – Katrina demonstrated that a hurricane can destroy newly created delta land, undermining the notion that this land can protect against hurricane surge. It also shows that even the best case for land building – Wax Lake and mouth…
5th Circuit Upholds Ruling in Katrina Levee Breaches Litigation – Update – Case rejected
Update: Court dismisses Katrina Levee Breach cases under FTCA – In re Katrina Canal Breaches Litigation, 696 F.3d 436 (5th Cir.(La.) 2012) Additional cases and commentary The 5th Circuit just affirmed the lower court decision in the Katrina Levee Breaches Litigation.…
Coastal Denial – Flood, what flood?
Bay St. Louis, Miss., officials want high-water markers placed by the state at Mississippi Highway 603 and Interstate 10 camouflaged so they no longer commemorate the tragedies of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. … Councilman Doug Seal said the markers are detrimental to attracting businesses that might want to relocate here, especially on undeveloped property around the interstate and Highway 603 juncture.
NAP Report on Resilience in LA and MS after Katrina
Assessing National Resilience to Hazards and Disasters:
The Perspective from the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Mississippi: Summary of a Workshop
ASCE – The New Orleans Hurricane Protection System: What Went Wrong and Why
“On the morning of August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck southeast Louisiana and triggered what would become one of the worst disasters ever to befall an American city. The devastation was so extensive, and the residual risk looms so ominous,…
Marsh land destruction not foreseeable cause of Katrina damage
In this consolidated limitation action, Claimants, Hurricane Katrina floodvictims, filed claims against the Limitation Petitioners, private companies thatoperated twenty-two dredging vessels along the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet pursuant to contracts with the United States Army Corps of Engineers[…]
Hurricane Katrina – Was Flooding Really a Surprise?
(Hurricane Katrina resources) One of the post-Katrina myths is that no one expected the city to flood. It is true that no politician ever used the f-word when calling for evacuations. This was the single deadliest mistake in the response…
Images of Katrina
The fifth anniversary of Katina is approaching, so this blog will devote some days to Katrina related posts. I sat out Katrina in Baton Rouge, where we got some damage, but where Rita was the more dangerous storm. LSU was…
Oliver Houck: Can We Save New Orleans? The Paper
Oliver Houck, Can We Save New Orleans? 19 TUL. ENVTL. L.J. 1-68 (2006) This is Professor Houck’s cri de coeur, written shortly after Katrina. It is worth reading to catch a sense of the times, and rereading if you have…
Community Resilience – Lessons from Katrina
This report was published in 2008. While there are problems with some of the assumptions, New Orleans is no better prepared today than in 2008 because none of the sociological factors have changed – denial is still the operative planning…