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Camp Hope is a volunteer base camp located in a former school in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana. [1] Camp Hope has welcomed people from all over the United States and all over the world who have come to participate in the massive recovery efforts of St. Bernard Parish and New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
The Common Ground Collective is a decentralized network of non-profit organizations offering support to the residents of New Orleans.It was formed in the fall of 2005 in the Algiers neighborhood of the city in the days after Hurricane Katrina resulted in widespread flooding, damage and deaths throughout the city.
An aerial view of the flooding near downtown New Orleans. The Superdome is at center. While moving through eastern Louisiana, the center of the eye of Katrina passed 23 mi (37 km) east of downtown New Orleans. The entire city observed hurricane-force winds, with higher wind gusts at higher elevations.
August 29 marks the 10-year anniversary of the day that Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana, and since then, New Orleans and surrounding areas have never been the same.
In New Orleans, classes were canceled for almost 50,000 public school students for a second straight day Thursday. ... as compared to the year and a half his team worked after Hurricane Katrina in ...
Flooding in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans after Hurricane Betsy in 1965. New Orleans was settled on a natural high ground along the Mississippi River. Later developments that eventually extended to nearby Lake Pontchartrain were built on fill to bring them above the average lake level. Navigable commercial waterways extended from the lake ...
While the Orleans Parish Coroner's Office has not yet confirmed her death in association with the attack, family members placed a photo of her up at the memorial, WWL-TV of New Orleans reported ...
The Murphy Oil USA refinery spill was an oil spill that resulted from the failure of a storage tank at the Murphy Oil USA petroleum refinery in the residential areas of Chalmette and Meraux, Louisiana, United States, on August 30, 2005, the day after Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the U.S. Gulf Coast. [1]