hurricane katrina

     

2005 Atlantic hurricane season

Trivia about hurricane katrina

  • Denise Thornton founded Beacon of Hope to help restore N.O. after this 2005 event; see lakewoodbeacon.org if you want to help
  • This 2005 event is the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history
  • Anderson Cooper, a Mississippian's son, started writing "Dispatches from the Edge" while covering this 2005 disaster
  • Spike chronicled the aftermath of this disaster in the 2006 documentary series "When the Levees Broke"
  • (I'm Frank Rich.) I transitioned from theater critic to critic of the Bush Admin., as in my book subtitled "The Decline and Fall of Truth from 9/11 to" this 2005 natural disaster
  • (Oprah Winfrey gives the clue.) In 2003 I surprised a New Orleans nanny named Fanny with some gifts, including a new van & it was that van that helped Fannie and her family escape this natural disaster
  • In "The Tin Roof Blowdown", Iberia parish sheriff Dave Robicheaux deals with the aftermath of this 2005 event