US EditionAfter Hurricane Katrina, the Superdome Was a ‘Symbol of Misery and suffering.’ 5 Years Later, It Was the Home of the Champs
Despite $5 million funding in 2024, Mississippi's hurricane mitigation program was defunded in 2025 after retrofitting 28 homes, hindering preparedness progress since Katrina.
- On Friday, the documentary Hope in High Water premiered on Peacock, revisiting Katrina survivors and recovery two decades later; streaming starts at $7.99 a month.
- Twenty years ago, Hurricane Katrina unleashed catastrophic flooding in the Gulf Coast after breaching levees in New Orleans, Louisiana, causing over 1,800 deaths and $160 billion in damage.
- Two decades later, the New Orleans school system was rebuilt as the nation's first all‑charter district after sustaining over $900 million in damage.
- In 2024 Mississippi legislature funded the Comprehensive Hurricane Damage Mitigation Program with $5 million from insurance companies and offered $10,000 to retrofit roofs, but defunded it in May 2025 despite mitigating 28 homes.
- Two decades after Katrina, Hurricane Katrina survivors credit educators and teachers inspired by the crisis for their life choices, while advocates for stronger building codes stress better preparedness in Gulf Coast communities.
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After Hurricane Katrina, the Superdome was a ‘symbol of misery and suffering.’ 5 years later, it was the home of the champs
On August 28, 2005, thousands of people queued to enter the Superdome, just as they had done countless times since the stadium opened 30 years prior. But this time it was different.
How Katrina Transformed New Orleans Schools : Up First from NPR
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, state officials in Louisiana saw an opportunity to transform New Orleans public schools, many of which they considered "failing." Twenty years later, we look at one of the biggest experiments in U.S. public education and whether the move to charter schools was a success.
New Orleans has understood that we don't win against water. Streets, sponge parks,...we are now looking to absorb it rather than to push it away.
Editorial: 20 years later, what Katrina revealed about us
Two decades is a long time. Long enough for a new generation to have grown up with no memory of that terrible day in 2005 when the floodwalls broke and water began rising so suddenly, so awfully and so devastatingly.
How Hurricane Katrina shaped these New Orleans educators
Twenty years ago, Hurricane Katrina changed the face of education in New Orleans forever. The school system was utterly destroyed and then utterly transformed, becoming the first and only all-charter school district in the country.Ahead of the storm's anniversary, The Associated Press asked three survivors to reflect on what it was like to be a student or a teacher during that tumultuous period. For some, connections they developed with educator…
Video - Twenty years ago, a Category 5 hurricane was formed off the Bahamas. Touching land in Louisiana, it ravages New Orleans, killing more than 1,800 people, and causes trauma in American society.
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