Join Slate Plus to continue reading, and you’ll get unlimited access to all our work—and support Slate’s independent journalism. Afterward, 238 people died in Mississippi, and all counties in Mississippi were declared disaster areas, 49 for full federal assistance. Nearly 80 percent of New Orleanians’ homes were flooded.Slate relies on advertising to support our journalism. During Hurricane Katrina, then known as the Louisiana Superdome, the … The RSD converted schools to charters and now oversees the country’s first all-charter district.
Photos: Remembering Hurricane Katrina People seek high ground on Interstate 90 as a helicopter prepares to land at the Superdome in New Orleans on August 31, 2005.
These breaches caused the majority of the flooding, according to a June 2007 report by the American Society of Civil Engineers. Evacuees from across the city swelled the crowd to about 30,000, believing the arena was the best place to get a ride out of town.Later studies determined that most of New Orleans' Katrina dead were elderly persons living near levee breaches in the Lower Ninth Ward and Lakeview neighborhoods.
The move was clearly targeted at New Orleans’ crippled school system.More troubling, though, were the unheeded warnings of possible levee failure one year before Katrina.“We are running out of food and water at the dome,” Bahamonde wrote.The truth is more complicated than that.Although it’s true Hurricane Katrina hastened the expansion of Louisiana’s state-run Recovery School District, the district was not born from the storm.Photo by Mario Tama/Getty ImagesThe myth of the Katrina “reset” is popular with national media.
Victims of Hurricane Katrina fight through the crowd as they line up for buses to evacuate the Superdome and New Orleans, Sept. 1, 2005. The levee and flood wall failures caused flooding in 80% of New Orleans and all of St. Bernard Parish. When Katrina struck on August 29, 2005, the project was between 60–90% complete.
It was previously used in 1998 during Hurricane Georges and in 2004 during Hurricane Ivan.During Georges, the Superdome had no problems related to the weather but evacuees stole furniture and damaged property, resulting in thousands of dollars in losses. by JOHN DORN The Mercedes-Benz Superdome is a landmark in the city of New Orleans. Here are five of the most stubborn myths about the disaster, the recovery, and the city of New Orleans—plus one self-delusional bonus myth we just can’t let stand.This is perhaps the most outrageous example in the “post-Katrina crime wave” genre.“Just tell her that I just ate an MRE and crapped in the hallway of the Superdome with 30,000 other close friends,” Bahamonde wrote back. A dramatic levee break. The oldest parts of the city, near the Mississippi River, can be more than 10 feet above sea level.Taylor forwarded the email to Bahamonde.You’ve run out of free articles. The Corps hands components of the system over to the local levee boards upon completion.
Responsibility for the design and construction of the levee system belongs to the United States Army Corps of Engineers; the responsibility of maintenance belongs to the local levee boards.