What You Need To Know About...
...New Orleans
1. The Basics
4. Hurricane Katrina
9. Books
10. Useful Links
News
12/13/2005 - Preliminary tests show that one of the broken levees that allowed the city to flood had been built deep enough, raising new questions about what caused the failure. Article at Reuters.
The Basics
1.1 What is New Orleans?
It's a large American city of approximately 500,000 people.
1.2 Where is New Orleans?
It's located in the south-eastern corner of the State of Louisiana.
Hurricane Katrina
4.1 What was Hurricane Katrina?
A massive, category 5, hurricane that struck the city and the surrounding Gulf Coast on August 29th, 2005 causing massive damage, a total evacuation of the city and killing over 1,000 people.Books
9.1
Frommer's New Orleans 2005
9.2 Why
New Orleans Matters by Tom Piazza
Useful Links
10.1
New Orleans @
Wikipedia
10.2 NOLA: Everything New Orleans - The
Times-Picayune
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