AltWeeklies Wire
Three Evacuees Share Their Stories of Arriving in Atlantanew
New Orleans residents who escaped their flooded city are only now beginning to grasp the scope of what they've lost.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Steve Fennessy |
09-15-2005 |
Disasters
Tags: disasters
The Big Uneasynew
New Orleans is revealed in fact and film.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
09-14-2005 |
Disasters
The Day the Music Died
New Orleans-born musicians now in Santa Fe contemplate life after The Big Easy.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Nathan Dinsdale |
09-14-2005 |
Disasters
Waiting for Help in the Shadow of the Superdomenew
On a bridge that stands above floodwater near the Superdome, sick and hungry people waited endlessly for buses to take them from New Orleans.
Association of Alternative Newsmedia |
Burk Foster |
09-14-2005 |
Disasters
Inside the Dome
A physician gives a first-hand report on treating evacuees in the Astrodome.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Daniel Kovnat |
09-14-2005 |
Disasters
Things Fall Apart
In New Orleans, a convoy of emergency responders find a Motel Six with its side ripped off, a tattered mattress on top of a car, starving dogs and a lone man who doesn't want to leave his home and go out into all that filth.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Dan Frosch |
09-14-2005 |
Disasters
Residents in New Orleans' Outlying Parishes Feel Alonenew
Residents of Plaquemines, St. Bernard, Jefferson and other parishes say they were overlooked in the aid effort, and the suffering has left sheriff's deputies heartbroken.
Association of Alternative Newsmedia |
Jeremy Alford |
09-14-2005 |
Disasters
Thunderbirds in the Garden
As the New Orleans floodwaters recede, the
Oklahoma National Guard’s 45th Infantry Brigade changes its mission.
Oklahoma Gazette |
Ben Fenwick |
09-14-2005 |
Disasters
Submerged: An Evacuee's Journal: City of the Dead
For evacuees of Hurricane Katrina, nothing stops conversation like a first-hand account about home. Second in a multi-part series
Association of Alternative Newsmedia |
Michael Tisserand |
09-13-2005 |
Disasters
Brass-Band Funeral: Jazz and Destructionnew
Katrina brought home what a lot of us tourists sensed implicitly for years: that the New Orleans cultural scene owes much of its vitality to a community that lives on the edge of subsistence, for which that culture isn’t merely "entertainment," but truly a matter of life and death.
Boston Phoenix |
Jon Garelick |
09-13-2005 |
Disasters
New Orleans Had Long Begged for Help, Unheedednew
The "war on terror" sucked up so much funding previously allocated to disaster preparedness that the country risked losing New Orleans, says a writer who proposed a book on the topic months before Hurricane Katrina.
Arkansas Times |
Mara Leveritt |
09-13-2005 |
Disasters
Tags: oil, Homeland Security, Hurricane Katrina, evacuation, Louisiana, Port, Asa Hutchinson, body bags, Borders and Transportation Security, breach levees, deaths toll, governor candidate Arkansas, haz-mat suits, Mark Davis, Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, Port Fourchon, the director of emergency management for New Orleans’ Jefferson Parish, Walter Maestri
The Breaking Pointnew
Far from being beset by anarchy, most of those left behind in New Orleans were victimized by its exact opposite -- the rigid, entrenched hierarchy of the dollar, which has centralized control of land and lives over the years.
NOW Magazine |
Mike Smith |
09-12-2005 |
Disasters
Hang On, There's Morenew
The reality yet to be confronted by emergency planners anywhere is that almost all modern post-industrial humans are helpless and incompetent when it comes to looking after themselves.
NOW Magazine |
Wayne Roberts |
09-12-2005 |
Disasters
Tags: disasters
A View of New Orleans From Touro Infirmarynew
Gambit Weekly writer Katy Reckdahl describes giving birth during Katrina, and the worsening conditions in her New Orleans hospital in the aftermath.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Mike Mosedale |
09-09-2005 |
Disasters
Tags: disasters
