Katrina Coverage

Here's their press release:
Many of the New Orleans levee and floodwall failures in the wake of Hurricane Katrina occurred at weak-link junctions where different levee or wall sections joined together, according to a preliminary report released today (Wednesday, Nov. 2) by independent investigators from the University of California, Berkeley, and the American Society of Civil […]

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 Loyola University Hurricane Emergency Plan (effective August 1, 2003) is available here or in this cached page, and it contains this:
Limited bus transportation is available to evacuate those resident students who are unable to evacuate on their own. Loyola can only evacuate approximately 150 remaining residents. The City of New Orleans and other agencies […]

The headline says almost all: "PETA asks Attorney General to charge LSU with animal abandonment in Katrina aftermath". Apparently there were 8000 animals in the university's labs:
PETA alleges Larry Hollier, the dean of LSU Health Sciences Center School of Medicine, and Joseph Morschbaecher, the Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the LSU Health Sciences Center, admitted […]

The AP's "Years of Research Swept Away by Katrina's Rising Waters" reports on the research labs and similar that were scuttled or destroyed due to the hurricane.
Louisiana's chief epidemiologist [Dr. Raoult Ratard] enlisted state police on a mission to break into a high-security government ["hot lab"] and destroy any dangerous germs before they could escape […]