Katrina Coverage

The Army Corps of Engineers said the plan for improved levees that is being pushed by President George Bush is a good one for the areas where levees breached but will do nothing to protect the Lower Ninth Ward, New Orleans East or St. Bernard Parish.
…The plan calls for closing off the levees at the […]

St. Bernard Parish president, Henry "Junior" Rodriguez, says they need 12,000 trailers, but only a small percentage of that amount have been set up:
…1,400 trailers are sitting unused in St. Bernard Parish. The parish ordered them from a private contractor days after the hurricane hit on August 29, but the Federal Emergency Management Agency has […]

From this November 12 story:
Saint Bernard Parish sheriff's officials say they have arrested about 50 people in some 20 cases of looting since Hurricane Katrina.
The parish is still closed to non-residents, but some people allowed in to work have apparently also take advantage of their access to commit burglaries and thefts.
Major John Doran, chief of […]

One of the more gruesome tales coming in the aftermath of the storm was the claim that 22 dead people tied to a rope had been spotted in Violet, which is in St. Bernard Parish. It wasn't a case of just a really long rope: it was a tall tale. "Officials debunk one of the […]

From this:
The federal government next month will start requiring local governments to pay a premium if they decide to bypass the U-S Army Corps of Engineers when contracting for hurricane-related debris removal.
Starting November 27th, local authorities who hire their own contractors to remove debris will have to pick up 10 percent of the cost.
Parishes that […]

Katrina may mean MR-GO has to go
…After massive flooding killed hundreds in St. Bernard Parish, eastern New Orleans and the Lower 9th Ward, there is growing consensus that Katrina's surge was made far worse by the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet, a 76-mile shortcut between the city and the Gulf of Mexico. And while the shipping industry […]

The DMN's "Seafood industry forced over the edge" reports that the $2.6 billion a year industry has been severely damaged by both hurricanes:
…That has heightened uncertainty about the future of an industry that provides nearly 30,000 jobs and lands almost half of the shrimp, 26 percent of the crabs and 37 percent of the oysters […]

Let me summarize "After Blocking the Bridge, Gretna Circles the Wagons":
Gretna passed a resolution supporting the decision to block the bridge…
Gretna is 2/3 white, blue-collar, and has had an occasionally troubled relationship with NO…
They helped bus 5000 NOers out, but then the strain got too much…
… After someone set the local mall on fire Aug. […]

"Rescuers awed by ruin revealed as water recedes" isn't as in-depth as it could be, but:
… Flying over St. Bernard's Parish, the flight crew surveyed empty streets covered knee-deep in mud. Piles of destroyed cars were scattered all over the unidentifiable streets. While some homes were down to their foundations, others somehow had withstood Katrina's […]

The NYT article linked in "St. Bernard Parish defenseless from storms til 2006" also includes this:
[St. Bernard Parish], which unlike New Orleans lies above sea level, was protected by the levee from the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet, a canal built by the corps that is now a subject of scrutiny. Completion of the canal four decades […]