Australian city recalls its Katrina moment
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The Christian Science Monitor - It may be at the far end of the globe, but when hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans last year, many from Australia's northern port city of Darwin saw the past flash before their eyes.
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On Sunday morning, another slice of life is scheduled to slide back into place as New Orleans slowly regains its cultural balance in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
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Hurricane Katrina erased much of the Mississippi Gulf Coast's past, but the deadly storm also created a blank canvas and a historic opportunity for reinventing cities like this once-quaint beach community.
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A still-unsettled town chooses a defiant mascot and returns to the field in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
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They gave Greg Porter the key to the city for his volunteer work after Hurricane Katrina. Then, he says, they showed him the door.
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By Mike Keller, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Sep. 8--A year ago, Katrina wreaked havoc on many aspects of life in South Mississippi. Often concern for the environment and our natural resources took a back seat to the immediacy of rescue, relief and recovery.
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SYDNEY - Normally exuberant New Year celebrations were tempered by thoughts for victims of south Asiaâs tsunami as several major cities cancelled parties and Australia led a global minute of silence.
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You might be surprised how far you have to drive from New Orleans, LA to get to the Gulf of Mexico.  Following     the west bank of the Mississippi River along Hwy 23, you go through the separate and well-separated towns of     Belle Chasse, Pointe a la Hache, Port Sulphur, Empire, Boothville, and finally over 60 miles from New Orleans     the tiny oilfield supply and marina town of Venice.    At Empire the highway goes over a pretty tall bridge and on the other side of the canal, beyond the levee     system, Katrina's storm surge came through with a vengeance.  The roads have been cleared but everywhere along     them are the twisted skeletons of steel buildings with vegetation hanging out of shattered second-story     windows.  A refrigerator sits atop the flooded husk of a house.  A perfect square of fenceless pickets     surrounds a perfectly bare concrete slab.  The occasional forlorn FEMA trailer can be spotted parked on one of     many slabs in a field of such slabs that was once a neighborhood.  The carcass of a cow is wedged improbably     in the canopy of a tree twenty feet up.    What is striking is not that the landscape looks like this; most of the coastline of Louisiana and Mississippi     experienced such damage.  What is striking is that it looked like this when I visited last week, in August     2006, almost an entire year after the storm came through.
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On the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, anger over the stalled rebuilding was palpable throughout a city where the mourning for the dead and feeling of loss for flooded homes, schools, snowball stands, old-time hairstylists and hardware stores doesn't seem to subside.
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In aftermath of disaster, survivors of school siege recall the nightmare.
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NEW ORLEANS, June 20 -- In this city still half-emptied from one of the worst floods in American history, one question provokes the ever present doubt.
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Standing in the ruins of the Lower   Ninth Ward, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin envisions for the crowd   a city rebuilt from Hurricane Katrina with new houses standing   high above the reach of killer storms and grinding poverty.
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Drowned 50 years ago for progress and the promise of near limitless water, the town of Old Adaminaby has re-emerged from its sunken grave as drought ravages one of Australia's biggest lakes.
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Get INQ7 breaking news on your Smart mobile phone in the Philippines. Send INQ7 BREAKING to 386. SYDNEY, Australia -- The world&#39;s biggest earthquake in almost four years, measuring 8.1 on the Richter Scale
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A year after one of the worst natural disasters in U.S. history, this shattered city turned its attention to rituals of mourning and celebrations of life.
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About 5,000 Australians who evacuated their houses to avoid being swept away by rising floodwaters were allowed to return home Monday, while others downstream braced for the approaching torrent.
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New Orleans hardly needs an anniversary to help it recall a disaster that upended the life of virtually every resident.