Doomed New Orleans: Hurricane Katrina | National Geographic

people can't just "not move back" or even move away. A huge amount of people in new orleans do not have the resources to even make a move. They are barely able to keep their homes now. They do not have cars. New Orleans has a rich culture and history, you cannot just abandon it...

Thats my hometown I left before it happen but it still make me cry to watch it my whole life change that day

I am currently visiting N.O. as we speak,and I happen to think it is a very beautiful city,and rich with lots of history and culture.

America should hire Dutch engineers. They are the best when it comes to designing cities below sea level.

I’m in New Orleans today for the first time. Of course Is 2023 now, and it’s being 18 years since Katrina. I can only imagine what people dealt with back then. Fast forward to 2023, the city is still vibrant and full of life

New Orleans is a very very flooding coastal city, but it is also very important because it delivers goods to every state in the US even some parts of Canada🙂🙂🙂

hurricane ida is coming tomorrow. i’m so worried for louisiana ):

New Orleans is pretty much becoming atlantis

My deepest sincerest condolences to anybody that has lost any type of loved one and this catastrophe disaster. And to all the people that were left picking up the pieces and having to try to move on my prayers sympathy the best luck to you now

Iam glad there are intelligent people like national geographic they got the full education on this subject

i remember being there , what a tragic event ;c

I asked my grandma and she said it built like a bowl and when it filled up to much it sinks and she put it in a bowl and that hit me hard

NYC should be worrying now about increasing sea waters.

As ida bears down on same evil day so many happy they relocated

I used to think that N'awlins was the only place that Katrina hit because so much of the news coverage focused on that city. I was surprised to learn that Katrina hit other areas as well.

Oh boy, here we go again

Add to that the climate effect on rising sea levels.... I want a piece of that real estate action.

I’m here bc I was born in NO and had to move after this. Well my family moved us bc the schools and crime got so bad after we came back. I keep having horrible dreams of the ocean coming in again, for more than 6 months it feels like. I’m almost scared to go back to even visit

I used to get so aggravated when all I hear is “NOLA this NOLA that” when the subject of Katrina comes up. Over the years I got over it but I can at least say that both Louisiana and Mississippi were affected greatly by Katrina. However people who were not in MS during Katrina will never understand the frustration the media caused us when our MS coast cities all looked like they were nuked by a bomb and then when you talk to other people from other places about Katrina, people ask “Oh I thought the storm hit New Orleans?” -_- During Katrina in MS, I watched a tornado touchdown and wipe out an entire FAMILY, buildings collapsing, 9 hours of constant 120mph wind and roaring, and then after the storm, we lived outside for two weeks praying that it would rain cause of the heat and dehydration. That experience really messed with me physically and mentally. Yet, the levees break in NOLA and all of a sudden (me as a MS Katrina survivor) according to the media, I was no longer classified as a Katrina victim. Don’t get me wrong, what happened in NOLA was messed up! But let me just say this, Mississippi got brunt of the STORM, Louisiana’s main issue was the levees breaking -which was due to poor management and the priorities of the city. You can ask just about any Mississippi resident about what I just wrote and they will agree 100%.

This would've never happened if they didn't build the whole entire city into a bowl.