Katrina Coverage

Showing up unannounced:
Rev Jackson said it is "corrupt" that storm survivors have been left jobless and about half of the city's public servants are being laid off in the aftermath of hurricanes Katrina and Rita, while contracts to rebuild the region are primarily being awarded to out-of-state corporations.
"There is no job being done right now […]

From "9th Ward has history, but does it have a future?"
…Of the 160,000 buildings in Louisiana declared "uninhabitable" after Katrina, a majority are in the New Orleans neighborhoods that suffered extensive flooding. Mayor C. Ray Nagin, an African American who worked in the private sector before entering politics, has spelled out plans to reopen every […]

Col. Duane Gapinski, commander of the Unwatering Task Force for the Corps of Engineers says: "It's a winnable battle… We had the city under control before Rita, and I'm pretty optimistic we're going to do it again."
On Sunday, he said that Plaquemines Parish would take another three weeks.
Hurricane Rita flooded the lower 9th Ward on […]

There are apparently at least three breaches:
Dozens of blocks in the Ninth Ward were under water as a waterfall at least 30 feet wide poured over and through a dike that had been used to patch breaks in the Industrial Canal levee. On the street that runs parallel to the canal, the water ran waist-deep […]

The 9/2 video here is of evacuee Charmaine Neville describing her experiences getting out of the 9th ward. A transcript is here.
I find some of the things she says a bit questionable, but she was obviously distraught when being taped. She says that helicopters would fly over but wouldn't ever stop, and then offers this:
A […]

From the LAT's "Water Levels Down Sharply in New Orleans":
Water levels dropped precipitously Monday in the worst of the flooded neighborhoods in and around New Orleans. Areas that had been under 6 to 8 feet of water less than two days earlier were dry at dawn, with ooze now smearing the streets and water collecting […]