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In 2014, he was convicted of bribery, fraud and money laundering committed while in office before and after Katrina and is now serving a 10-year sentence, according to the New Orleans Times-Picayune.
Kathleen Blanco and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin came under severe scrutiny for not ordering mandatory evacuations sooner. Brown, the director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), was forced to resign, as was New Orleans Police Department Superintendent Eddie Compass. Many residents did not heed initial warnings to evacuate, putting a severe strain on rescue operations.Īfter initially receiving praise from then-president George W. Critics blamed an aging and neglected federal levee system and a slow state and local response following the disaster for the high loss of life and damage. The rescue and recovery efforts following Katrina became highly politicized, with federal, state and local officials pointing fingers at one another. According to The Data Center, an independent research organization in New Orleans, the storm displaced more than 1 million people in the Gulf Coast region. It was one of the largest displacements of a population since the Great Depression, according to the NOAA. Thousands sought refuge in the New Orleans Convention Center and the Superdome, which were overwhelmed. The National Guard was called in to help with evacuations. Ultimately, 80 percent of New Orleans and large portions of nearby parishes became flooded, and the floodwaters did not recede for weeks. Army Corps of Engineers, causing extensive flooding throughout the New Orleans region," said Sandy Rosenthal, the founder and director of the advocacy group aimed at educating people about the catastrophic flooding in New Orleans in 2005 and a known critic of the Army Corps. "The surge exposed engineering mistakes in the levees and floodwalls designed and built by the U.S. A large storm surge ranging from 10 to 28 feet devastated coastal areas across southeastern Louisiana and coastal Mississippi. (Image credit: NASA) Storm impactĪs Katrina made landfall, its front-right quadrant, which held the strongest winds, slammed into Gulfport and Biloxi, Mississippi, devastating both cities. She worked at Tulane Medical School for 10 years and was active in her church before she broke her hip in 2000.The flooding in New Orleans nearly a week after Hurricane Katrina hit, taken by NASA's EO-1 satellite on Sept. “I talked to different organizations, and nobody could find her,” he said.Įthel Freeman’s husband died in 1976. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) Eric Gay / Ap File / AP Freeman became an anonymous symbol of the government's slow response to Hurricane Katrina: The 91-year-old woman's body lay outside the convention center for days. The body of Ethel Freeman, center in wheelchair, and another body lie covered outside an entrance to the Convention Center where thousands continue to wait to be evacuated from hurricane-ravaged New Orleans, La., Friday, Sept. Still, it took him seven weeks to track down his mother’s body, which was taken to a morgue in St. “There were helicopters buzzing all around.”īefore he was evacuated, Herbert Freeman left a note with his name and telephone number in one of his mother’s pockets. “They should have airlifted her immediately,” he said.
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