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20 Years After Hurricane Katrina, St. Bernard Parish Is Still Recovering – Knowhere News

Louis Pomes, elected parish president in 2023, leads efforts to rebuild infrastructure, improve flood protection, and attract new residents amid ongoing recovery from Hurricane Katrina.

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Chalmette, Louisiana. Louis Pomes was standing on top of a government building in St. Bernard Parish that looked out over a marsh when Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana on August 29, 2005. “All of a sudden it just looked like somebody picked up the earth and started running with it,” Pomes recalls. “It was a surge of water coming, but it was pushing all the debris and the trash in front of it.” He was a heavy equipment supervisor for the parish at…

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