Hurricane Katrina in Podcasts

Now, if their perspectives had been known and integrated into the interagency emergency response planning in New Orleans for Hurricane Katrina, then thousands of families would not have been stranded on their roofs waiting for rescue or sleeping in a sports stadium because the city would have already known that lower-income families living in a flood zone did not have a car to evacuate the city alive.

But he told me that a lot of the people in that neighborhood came here to help rebuild New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.