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One of Hurricane Katrina’s most important lessons isn’t about storm preparations – it’s about injustice

Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina swept through New Orleans, the images still haunt us: entire neighborhoods underwater, families stranded on rooftops and a city brought to its knees.

The Conversation

Hurricane Katrina Devastated New Orleans. Some of It Came Back Better.

Hurricane Katrina was a chapter in the history of man's struggle both to control nature and to accept what he cannot control.

Reason

‘There’s New Orleans before and after’: revisiting Hurricane Katrina in a new docuseries

With the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina approaching, a powerful five-part docuseries, produced by Ryan Coogler, takes a look back at the many lives affected

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Hurricane Katrina: Race Against Time review – a gripping, epic look at the New Orleans tragedy 20 years on

Traci A Curry’s documentary explores how political impotence, media distortion and America’s racial polarisation turned a disaster into something much worse

The Guardian - UK

New on Netflix in August 2025 — every movie and show coming this month

Here are the shows and movies you need to watch on Netflix this month, including "Wednesday" season 2, "My Oxford Year" and more.

Tom’s Guide

New eco-hotel at Everglades national park built for age of super hurricanes

Flamingo Lodge – constructed from repurposed shipping containers on stilts – replaces Florida facility battered by hurricanes Katrina and Wilma

The Guardian - US

Soul icon Irma Thomas on the Stones, segregation and survival: ‘Restaurants refused to serve us – we lived on sardines and crackers’

She has endured racism, industry machinations and Hurricane Katrina across her seven decades in music. Now with a new album, and an unlikely boost from Black Mirror, the 84-year-old ‘Soul Queen of New Orleans’ is hitting new heights

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Residents of New Orleans comeback district fear port development could kill the renaissance

Residents of the Lower Ninth Ward say a huge industrial project will imperil its recovery from 2005’s Hurricane Katrina

The Guardian - US

‘A sweeping catastrophe’: 20 years after Hurricane Katrina, a photo exhibit honors Mississippi victims

Hurricane Katrina: Mississippi Remembers captures the grief and resilience of survivors in the Magnolia state

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Weather tracker: Hurricane Helene leaves trail of death and devastation

Deadliest mainland hurricane to strike US since Katrina caused widespread flooding and major power outages

The Guardian - UK

Helene Becomes the Deadliest Hurricane to Hit Mainland U.S. since Katrina

The storm's death toll has reached at least 200, making it the deadliest mainland hurricane since Katrina in 2005.

Latin Times

Human connections bring hope in North Carolina after devastation of Helene

In the midst of the devastating destruction left by the deadliest hurricane to hit the mainland U.S. since Katrina, human connections are giving the survivors hope in western North Carolina

The Independent UK

Hurricane Helene is deadliest storm since Katrina as fatalities reach 182

The majority of deaths were reported in North Carolina

The Independent UK

“Imagine the dirtiest Les Paul on the planet, but even worse”: Jared James Nichols is reviving a storm-destroyed Gibson – a 1975 Custom that was being played when its original owner died

The vintage instrument was ravaged by hurricane Katrina, after it had been put in storage for decades following the tragic death of its first owner

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“The original owner died while playing this very guitar”: Jared James Nichols resurrects another vintage Les Paul from a devastating storm – named Katrina, it has one heck of a story to tell

Nichols has a lot of work to do to make this 1975 Les Paul Custom road-worthy but early signs are it will sound amazing and give him another vintage guitar with a legendary back story

Guitar World

“Technical bass players might be able to spell it out in print, but if the pocket isn’t there, it’s just dots on paper”: The Meters’ George Porter Jr on surviving Hurricane Katrina, the subtleties of New Orleans funk and his unusual slap style

According to George Porter Jr., his job as a bassist is to tie the groove and the rhythm together

The Independent UK

18 years after Katrina levee breaches, group wants future engineers to learn from past mistakes

A Louisiana-based nonprofit is calling for future engineers to get more education on past failures and how to avoid repeating them

The Independent UK

Fox News criticised for using disgraced ex-FEMA head to attack Biden’s response to Hawaii wildfires

Social media users were quick to call back to the Hurricane Katrina era

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Reed Timmer Recounts His Top 5 Most Memorable Hurricane Interceptions

Extreme meteorologist Reed Timmer has spent over 25 years tracking and intercepting hurricanes in addition to hunting tornadoes.

Salon

Half of community moved after Katrina

After Hurricane Katrina devastated St. Bernard Parish, many residents didn’t receive enough money to rebuild

The Conversation

Disasters like Hurricane Ian can affect academic performance for years to come

When leaders at a middle school in New Orleans asked me to help students who were struggling after the city had been struck by Hurricane Katrina, we didn’t see eye to eye.

Tribune News Service

NFL: Bucs-Chiefs game on for Raymond James Stadium on Sunday

Tom Brady remembers playing NFL games after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina and Sept. 11.

Salon

How are the babies of Hurricane Katrina?

HBO's "Katrina Babies" director Edward Buckles Jr. told Salon how Hurricane Katrina changed his life when he was 12

Salon

Jackson is a current Hurricane Katrina

Like Hurricane Katrina and Flint, Michigan, systemic racism fueled Jackson’s water crisis

The Conversation

Brad Pitt's apparently defunct foundation reached a $20.5 million settlement with Hurricane Katrina survivors over its green housing debacle

The six homeowners who sued Brad Pitt’s Make It Right Foundation over the faulty construction of housing it built for them have reached a US$20.5 million settlement with the apparently defunct charity.

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