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Katrina: After the Flood

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by Gary Rivlin


  Home Depot and, 338–39

  layoffs and, 68, 153, 160, 163–64, 184, 214–15, 260, 387–88

  Liberty and, 21, 23, 27, 63–66, 68, 149–50, 153, 155, 227, 278–79

  Lower Ninth Ward and, 119–20

  employment (cont.)

  McDonalds and, 142–43, 145–48, 405

  Nagin and, 74, 80, 83, 86, 132, 163–64, 339

  New Orleans East and, 93–94, 98

  rebuilding and, 160, 168, 171, 191, 201–2, 214–15, 218, 229, 283–84

  and returning to New Orleans, 181–82, 233–34, 262–63, 284–85, 404

  RTA and, 1–2, 5, 11, 58

  unemployment and, xv, 58–59, 164, 340, 405

  Walls and, 282, 347

  Entergy, 20, 115, 173, 181, 228

  bankruptcy of, 127, 168, 193, 289–90

  Nagin and, 72–73, 86, 114

  rebuilding and, 159, 168, 193

  Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, 42, 65, 112, 122, 126, 230, 242, 258, 337, 380

  alleged violence in, 70–71, 128–29

  Community Congresses and, 319–20

  evacuations and, xiv, 16, 70, 120, 196

  and food and water, 40, 48, 54–55, 129

  people stranded in, 13, 17, 40, 43

  Farrakhan, Louis, 101–2, 240–42

  Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), 32–34, 36–41, 43, 45–46, 103, 111n, 112, 120, 173, 181, 189, 217, 244, 258, 315, 346

  Blanco and, 108–9

  cash disbursed by, 199, 201, 219–20

  Charity and, 190–91, 365

  emergency housing and, 186–88, 196, 198–99, 220, 251, 253, 257, 299–300, 309, 326, 330–32, 341, 354, 380, 386

  evacuations and, 13, 41

  finances of, 37–39

  flood maps of, 230–31

  Grant and, 384–85

  Landrieu and, 385–86, 390, 410–11

  Pam exercises and, 38–39, 41

  rebuilding and, 160, 168, 186–88, 191–92, 201–4, 214, 219–20, 230–31, 235–36, 322, 369, 396, 398, 402

  removing the dead and, 126–27

  repopulation and, 122, 124

  Feinman, Jay M., 302n

  Felton, Albert, 378

  Fernandez, Kevin, 16

  Fielkow, Arnie, 330

  First Bank and Trust, 207

  Fischer housing projects, 277

  Fischetti, Mark, 93

  flood insurance, 182, 206, 230n, 302–3, 311, 405

  Liberty and, 63, 144, 228

  rebuilding and, 219–21, 231, 253, 322

  floodwalls, 26, 33, 43, 47–48, 259, 387

  Florida, 30, 32, 36, 50, 323

  Folse, Artie, 162

  food, xiv, 12, 16–18, 22, 34, 43, 124–26, 173, 180, 183, 197, 263, 279, 308, 319, 368, 405

  alleged violence and, 129–30

  Canal Street barn and, 1–3

  Convention Center and, 40, 48, 54–55, 129

  in Gretna, 9, 11, 14, 16

  Lower Ninth Ward and, 271–72, 351–52

  New Orleans East and, 371–72, 403

  rebuilding and, 200, 202, 205, 271–72, 277

  Foreman, Pam, 77

  Forman, Ron:

  mayoral campaign of, 31, 245–48, 252–54, 287

  Nagin and, 130–31, 136, 171, 245–47, 250, 287–89, 414

  rebuilding and, 131, 136, 185

  Forman, Sally, 15, 44, 48, 58, 75, 82–85, 87, 113, 123, 130–31, 171, 200, 220, 246–47, 254, 319

  Bush and, 31–32, 43, 45–46

  Nagin’s chocolate city remark and, 243, 246

  Nagin’s mayoral campaigns and, 83–85, 241, 246

  Foti, Charles, Jr., 295

  Fox, Fox News, 118, 245, 391

  Fradella, Frank, 414

  Francis, Norman, 135, 144, 147–49, 151, 282, 346

  Frank, Barney, 236–37

  French Quarter, xvi, 17, 40, 57, 65, 68, 75, 90–91, 99, 112, 115, 118, 121, 123, 134, 167, 170, 176, 182, 230, 252, 293, 300, 332, 337, 340, 382, 388, 394

  Gadbois, Karen, 353–54

  Gambit, 81, 244, 376

  gambling industry, 171, 187

  garbage, 105, 183, 229, 232–33, 279, 316, 364–65, 392n

  rebuilding and, 186, 188, 202, 237, 290

  Garden District, xvi, 65, 68, 90, 95, 137, 154–55, 254, 395

  gas, gas system, xiv, 186, 198, 289

  rebuilding and, 115, 159–60, 193

  Gentilly, 27, 61–63, 68, 162, 233, 254, 260, 300

  destruction in, 372, 380

  flooding in, 62–63, 381

  housing in, 225, 267, 303, 372–73, 378–81, 402

  Liberty in, 150, 228, 372

  McDonald and, 344, 372–73, 402

  rebuilding and, 144, 175–76, 213, 239, 329, 334, 343–44, 378–81

  Road Home and, 329, 379

  Uddo and, 343–44, 378–81, 409

  Gilmore, David, 361

  Giuliani, Rudy, 185, 223, 247

  Gladney, Greta, 116–17, 203

  Glapion, Gail, 418

  Glassman, Sallie Ann, 395–96

  Gleason, Steve, 298

  Good Neighbor Plan, 310

  Good News Camp, 265, 309

  Grace, Stephanie, 395

  Grant, Cedric, 383–85

  Grant, Maggie, 31–32, 45–46

  Great Deluge, The (Brinkley), 35

  Green, Robert, Sr., 54

  Gretna, La., 242, 252

  blacks and, 194, 272, 274

  evacuations and, 6, 8–17, 197, 295, 365–66

  Gretna, La. (cont.)

  food and water in, 9, 11, 14, 16

  police of, 7–19, 366

  Gulf Coast Bank, 235, 268–69, 342

  Gusman, Marlin, 307, 416

  Gustav, Hurricane, 355

  Hale, Kate, 36

  Hammer, David, 389

  Hanover Insurance Group, 303

  Harrah’s, 14, 18, 88, 122, 160

  Harris, Ronnie, 11, 13

  Harrison, Mary, 315

  Harrison Avenue, 202, 267, 342, 408

  Hastert, Dennis, 68–69

  Hatfield, Brenda, 289

  Haygood, Wil, 129n

  Head, Stacy, 330–31, 353

  garbage pickups and, 364–65

  Home Depot and, 338–39

  Landrieu and, 390–91

  Healing Center, 396–97

  health care, 34, 55, 107, 121, 145, 184, 190, 226, 315, 320, 325–26, 341, 344, 347, 365, 392, 394–97, 418

  Algiers and, 275–76

  Blakely and, 334–36

  Lower Ninth Ward and, 272, 375

  mental, 259–60, 291, 367–68

  New Orleans East and, 142, 363, 403

  and rebirth of New Orleans, 397, 402

  rebuilding and, 229, 275–77, 280, 334–36, 403

  and returning to New Orleans, 182, 263, 326

  Hebert, Jeff, 361, 384, 408–9

  Hecht, Michael, 397

  Hedge-Morrell, Cynthia, 176

  Heldman, Caroline, 196–97

  Helmstetter, Michael, 14

  Henry, Ruston, 270

  Henry, Troy, 320, 334n, 382–83, 385, 391

  Hicks, Doris, 306–8, 325, 375, 388

  High Rise Bridge, 91, 139

  Hill, Eileen Sanjuan, 49, 52, 56

  Hill, Lance, 49–57, 59, 245, 291, 397

  Hines, Bill, 53, 183, 401

  Landrieu and, 361, 396

  Nagin and, 74, 86, 168, 288, 337, 396

  and rebirth of New Orleans, 396–97

  Holder, Eric, 362, 391

  Holm, Rasmus, 274

  Holy Cross, 118, 235–36, 332, 350, 376

  Home Again, Project, 333–34

  Home Depot, 143, 231, 292, 338–39

  Homeland Security Department, U.S., 32, 37, 39, 313

  Home Solutions of America, 414

  Home Stretch, 380

  Honoré, Russel, 112, 235

  Hood, Will, 342–44

  Gentilly and, 343–44

  Lakeview and, 295–96, 308
–9, 311

  rebuilding and, 311, 343–44

  Horne, Jed, 56, 82, 128n, 259

  Hotel Monteleone, 17–18

  housing, homes, 79–80, 127, 165, 192, 246, 404

  in Algiers, 273–75

  apartments and, 54, 56, 63, 95, 139, 170, 188–89, 191, 198, 261, 280–81, 285, 291, 326, 346, 375, 398, 402–3

  Canizaro and, 134–36, 172

  damage and destruction of, xiii, xv–xvi, 3, 6, 8, 22, 26, 54, 66, 102, 107, 118–19, 127, 129, 133, 139–42, 155, 158, 162–63, 173, 177, 186, 202–4, 212, 218–20, 225, 229, 231, 267, 281, 290, 311, 314–15, 325, 334, 353, 356, 366–67, 371–72, 375, 380, 402

  demand for, 367, 398

  demolition of, 137, 237–38, 276, 291, 299, 305, 315, 324, 330–31, 336, 353, 361, 363–64, 375, 395, 407

  doubles and, 266, 268, 270

  emergency, 109, 186–88, 191, 196–99, 205, 220, 232, 251, 253, 257, 269, 271–72, 293, 299–301, 305, 309, 322, 326, 330–32, 341, 348, 354, 360, 380, 386, 388

  evacuations and, 261, 293

  foreclosures on, 410, 415, 418

  in Gentilly, 225, 267, 303, 372–73, 378–81, 402

  in Holy Cross, 235–36

  homelessness and, 102n, 103, 107, 164, 197, 204, 301, 326, 337

  hotels and, 198, 201, 205, 233–34, 240, 346, 354, 375, 405

  insurance company disputes and, 302–3

  of Lagarde, 172–73

  in Lakeview, 91, 93, 178, 249, 261–68, 270–71, 309–11, 343, 407–9

  in Lakewood, 264–65, 271

  Landrieu and, 363–64, 386, 395

  lawsuits and, 302–3, 357–58, 366, 379n

  Liberty and, 93, 147–49, 151–52, 155–56, 226–28, 280, 371–72

  in Lower Ninth Ward, 118–19, 202–3, 210, 225, 237–38, 270–72, 276–77, 286, 303–5, 315, 326, 332–33, 348–53, 366, 372–77, 412, 417

  McClendon and, 303–5, 348–49, 351–53, 374–77, 410–11, 417–18

  McDonald and, 20–21, 23, 27, 62, 66, 93–94, 139–42, 144–45, 152–56, 173, 202, 224–28, 280, 282, 302, 344–45, 371, 373–74, 378, 401–2, 405

  Major and, 137–38, 173, 191

  motels and, 303, 305, 371

  Nagin and, 24, 71, 73–74, 103, 121, 170, 185–88, 220, 238, 287, 291, 330–31, 337, 345, 355, 378, 389, 415

  in New Orleans East, 93–97, 139–40, 155, 173, 225, 280, 283–85, 344, 363–64, 403

  in Ninth Ward, 102, 276

  number grades of, 218–20

  in Park Island, 344–45

  in Pontchartrain Park, 383, 402

  public, 8, 163, 188, 191, 193, 251, 253, 272–73, 276–77, 281–82, 291, 330–31, 361, 367, 395, 398, 401

  housing, homes (cont.)

  Rahim and, 272–77

  raising of, 213, 219, 253

  rebuilding and, 140, 158, 160–63, 171, 175, 177–78, 184, 186–88, 191, 193, 200–202, 205–6, 210–14, 216, 218–19, 222, 225–26, 230–31, 236–38, 253, 263–65, 268, 271, 276, 280–83, 290, 309–11, 315, 320, 324, 332–34, 336, 340, 348–49, 371, 378–81, 389, 396, 401–2

  renting and, 50, 95, 134, 173, 181–82, 188, 191, 198–99, 212, 262–64, 266, 270, 280–83, 302, 320, 348, 367, 373, 397–98, 403, 405

  repopulation and, 121–22

  and returning to New Orleans, 183, 187, 233, 251

  Road Home and, 222–23, 281, 282n, 311–14, 329, 343, 348, 351–52, 371, 379n, 380–81, 387

  in St. Bernard Parish, 301–2

  trailers and, 186–88, 191, 196, 198–99, 220, 232, 251, 253, 257, 271, 281, 285, 289, 299–300, 305, 309, 330–32, 341, 348, 354, 360, 380, 386, 388

  Walls and, 96–97, 179–82, 202, 230–32, 282–83, 346–48, 403, 406

  Housing and Urban Development Department, U.S. (HUD), 119, 281, 291, 321–22, 335–36, 346, 396

  Housing Authority of New Orleans (HANO), 191, 361, 398

  Houston, Tex., 64, 83, 116, 120, 132, 142, 153, 165, 173, 189, 192, 234, 258, 299, 310, 315, 346, 348, 352, 363–64, 395, 404

  Community Congresses and, 319–20

  evacuations and, 50, 196–98, 235, 261, 293–94, 341

  Nagin’s mayoral campaign and, 251, 255

  Howard, Janet, 215

  Howard, Sheila, 155

  Hutchinson, Don, 233–34

  Hyatt Regency, 88, 173

  McDonald and, 20, 23–24

  Nagin and, 6, 31, 42–44, 72, 110, 120, 132

  ICF International, 312–14

  InCourage, 347

  Industrial Canal, 26, 91, 117–18, 139, 203, 350, 376, 417

  insurance, insurance companies, 142–45, 165, 186, 190, 204, 213, 229, 290, 304, 369, 373, 411

  disputes with, 67, 191, 214, 302–3, 347

  homeowner’s, 144, 231, 302–3, 347, 405

  Landrieus and, 269, 365

  McDonalds and, 67–68, 144–45, 224–28, 302, 344, 371–72

  Major and, 173, 191

  Road Home and, 222, 281, 284, 303, 311–13, 333, 347, 371–72, 379, 387

  Walls and, 182, 230–31, 347

  see also flood insurance

  International City Bank and Trust (ICB), 147–48

  Iraq, 33–35, 38, 103, 107–8, 206, 214, 219, 242, 251–52, 295, 300, 308–9

  Irvin, Henry, Jr., 374–75

  Jackson, Alphonso, 119

  Jackson, Jesse, 156, 252

  Jackson, Miss., 23, 28, 98, 134, 152, 193, 270, 297, 346

  Jackson, Stacie, 354n

  Jackson Square, 112, 166, 170, 256, 294, 403, 409

  James, Joe, 60–62, 66

  Jefferson, Bill, 46

  Jefferson Parish, La., 14–15, 33, 78, 129n, 302, 365

  Jindal, Piyush “Bobby,” 367

  gubernatorial campaigns of, 46, 105–6, 108, 205, 223, 314, 328

  John Paul II, Pope, 141–42

  Johnson, Arthur, 66

  Johnson, Laurie A., 167n

  Johnson, Lyndon, 23, 35, 314

  Jones, Henry, 281

  Jones, Levon, 84–85

  Jones, Patricia, 350–51, 376

  Jones, Van, 130

  Jordan, Eddie, 295, 327–28, 330

  Joshua, IdaBelle, 315

  Kabacoff, Pres, 137, 190, 211, 394–98, 401

  Kallenborn, John, 215

  Kaste, Martin, 300

  Katrina, Hurricane:

  anniversaries of, 153, 279, 281, 283, 286–87, 289, 291, 294–95, 305, 310, 325, 342, 351, 354–55, 360, 368–69, 375, 379n, 387, 398–99, 409–10, 416–18

  bearing down on New Orleans, 1–2, 20–22, 24, 29, 33, 37, 40, 42, 47, 58, 103, 123

  casualties due to, 103, 118, 294, 390

  categorizing of, 20–21, 24–26, 32, 37–38, 103, 194

  cost of, 115, 164, 186, 199, 390

  preparing for, 103–4

  size of, 29, 32, 116

  storm surge of, 21, 26, 195

  winds of, 2, 21, 25–26, 42–43, 154

  Katrina Investment Deposits (KIDs), 156, 227

  Katrina’s Secrets (Nagin), 388–89

  Kegel, Martha, 301

  King, Danatus, 362

  King, Larry, 170, 333

  King, Martin Luther, Jr., 156, 242, 252

  Knutson, Kent, 338

  Kobe, 132–33

  Kopplin, Andy, 109

  Kroloff, Reed, 211–12, 217

  Krupa, Michelle, 289

  Ku Klux Klan, 52–53, 76

  Labbe, Russell, 60–63

  Liberty and, 27–28, 30, 60–62, 228, 278–79

  McDonald and, 27–28, 30, 228, 278

  water journey of, 61–62, 66

  Lagarde, Maurice L., III “Mel”:

  home of, 172–73

  rebuilding and, 136–37, 199, 209, 213

  Lake Forest Estates, 21, 62, 344–45, 371

  Lake Pontchartrain, 26–27, 43, 78, 90–91, 266, 284

  Lakeview, 213n, 254, 261–71, 358, 366, 368, 378, 384, 390–91

  cleanups in, 202, 235, 265, 311

  comparisons between New Orleans Eas
t and, 117, 267, 408–9

  crime in, 263–64, 266

  destruction in, 308–9, 311

  flooding in, 27, 43, 99, 116, 125n, 249, 252, 261–62, 264, 268–69

  housing in, 91, 93, 178, 249, 261–68, 270–71, 309–11, 343, 407–9

  rebirth of, 407–8

  rebuilding and, 160, 162–63, 168, 175–78, 187–88, 202, 214, 235, 264, 268, 271, 295–96, 298, 309, 311–12, 323, 329, 342–43, 407

  returning to, 261–65, 267–68, 310, 343

  secessionism of, 266, 268

  Uddo and, 261–65, 271, 308–9, 379–80, 409, 416–17

  UNOP and, 269–70

  Lakewood, 264–65, 271

  Lambert, Paul, 280, 285, 321

  Lambert Advisory, 268–69

  land banks, 212, 225–26

  Landrieu, Martin, 264n, 407–8

  Lakeview and, 176–77, 235, 266, 268–69, 298, 343

  UNOP and, 269–70

  Landrieu, Mary, 34, 46–48, 122, 241, 248, 256, 264n, 265, 314, 361, 407

  Landrieu, Mitch, xvi, 122, 359–65, 382–86, 388, 395–96, 402, 408

  blacks and, 248, 255–56, 359–62, 364–65, 369, 382–83, 390–93, 416

  community meetings of, 363–64

  FEMA and, 385–86, 390, 410–11

  Grant and, 383–84

  Henry and, 382–83, 385

  Lower Ninth Ward and, 374, 383, 410, 418

  mayoral campaigns of, 241, 245–49, 252–56, 288, 330, 359–61, 416

  Nagin and, 241, 256, 360–61, 384

  NOPD and, 362–63, 385, 391–93, 416

  rebuilding and, 249, 369, 384–85, 390–91

  Landrieu, Moon, 78–79, 122, 149, 176–77, 246–48, 360, 407

  Lapeyre, Jay, 234

  Latinos, 136, 171, 202, 283, 366

  Lawson, Arthur, 14, 194, 295

  Lee, Robert E., 76

  Lee, Silas, xv, 248

  Legrand, Rita, 310, 368, 384

  Lemmon, Mary Ann Vial, 365

  levees, 92, 117, 119, 325, 375, 396, 400

  breaching of, xiv, 3–4, 26–27, 33, 35, 39–40, 42–43, 47–48, 48n, 73, 102, 108, 110, 116, 124–25, 129, 162, 194–95, 203, 206, 237, 254, 258–59, 271, 287, 294, 303, 306, 332–33

  lawsuits and, 194–95, 358

  Nagin and, 43, 101–2, 110, 116

  rebuilding and, 161, 204–6, 229, 236, 387

  repairing of, 38, 124–25, 258–59, 284, 387

  Lewis, Peirce F., 89–93

  Lewis, Ronald, 119

  Liberty Bank and Trust, 20–24, 27–30, 129, 134–35, 373

  in Baton Rouge, 23, 28–29, 60, 62–64, 68, 143, 152, 154–55, 279

  blacks and, 20–22, 61, 68–69, 93, 143, 147–52, 157, 228, 346, 404

  businesses and, 149, 151–52, 156

  cleanup of, 227–29

  computers of, 22–23, 29, 60, 62, 66, 229, 279

  creation of, 147–49, 151

 

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