President Barack Obama is marking 10 years since Hurricane Katrina by celebrating the revival of New Orleans.
Obama was in the first year of a U.S. Senate term when Katrina’s powerful winds and driving rain bore down on Louisiana on Aug. 29, 2005. The storm caused major damage to the Gulf Coast from Texas to central Florida while powering a storm surge that breached the system of levees that were built to protect New Orleans from flooding.
Nearly 2,000 people died as a result, mostly in New Orleans, 80 per cent of which was flooded for weeks. One million people were displaced.
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New Orleans city guide
Coverage Includes: Planning chapters, French Quarter, Faubourg Marigny, Bywater, CBD, Warehouse District, Garden, Lower Garden, Central City, Uptown, Riverbend, Mid-City, the Tremé, Day Trips from New Orleans, Understand and Survival chapters.
Obama was in the first year of a U.S. Senate term when Katrina’s powerful winds and driving rain bore down on Louisiana on Aug. 29, 2005. The storm caused major damage to the Gulf Coast from Texas to central Florida while powering a storm surge that breached the system of levees that were built to protect New Orleans from flooding.
Nearly 2,000 people died as a result, mostly in New Orleans, 80 per cent of which was flooded for weeks. One million people were displaced.
New Orleans city guide
Coverage Includes: Planning chapters, French Quarter, Faubourg Marigny, Bywater, CBD, Warehouse District, Garden, Lower Garden, Central City, Uptown, Riverbend, Mid-City, the Tremé, Day Trips from New Orleans, Understand and Survival chapters.
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