The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast

"I have no doubt that New Orleans will recover, in time, from Hurricane Katrina. But America as a nation will never get over what happened." --Douglas Brinkley

In the span of five violent hours on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina destroyed major Gulf Coast cities and flattened 150 miles of coastline. Yet those wind-torn hours represented only the first stage of the relentless triple tragedy that Katrina brought to the entire Gulf Coast from Louisiana to Mississippi to Alabama.

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