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100 unusual facts about Hurricane Katrina


2005 New Orleans Saints season

The Saints played two preseason games in the Louisiana Superdome before being forced to evacuate New Orleans due to Hurricane Katrina.

2005 New York Giants season

The game was originally slated to be a home game for the Saints but had to be moved since the city of New Orleans was still recovering from Hurricane Katrina, and the Louisiana Superdome was untenable after being used as an emergency shelter for locals displaced by the hurricane.

2005 Tulane Green Wave football team

Their home stadium, the Louisiana Superdome, was damaged by Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 and forced the Green Wave to play the entire season on the road.

2007 Arena Football League season

Following a year-long hiatus last year in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the New Orleans VooDoo franchise resumed play this season to return the league to a 19-team format.

Adopt-a-Pet.com

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, 1-800-Save-a-Pet.com participated in the pet rescue effort by helping reunite pets with their owners and helping the pets that could not be reunited find either foster or new homes.

All Hands Together

Recorded in Tennessee, USA, it was a gospel-inflected, adult contemporary-styled charity single and her tribute to the victims of Hurricane Katrina, with the proceeds of the single going to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

American Chicle Company Building

The area flooded in the 2005 levee failure disaster during Hurricane Katrina.

Animal Cops: Houston

The Houston SPCA served as the coordinator of relief efforts for animals trapped in New Orleans, Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Anshe Sfard

The synagogue's Torah scrolls were rescued during Hurricane Katrina.

Anthony Battaglia

The Sea Wolves suspended operations in the middle of the off-season because of Hurricane Katrina.

Archon Information Systems

The first of these was the first online tax sale in the Gulf South region, and the first tax sale held in New Orleans, Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina.

Bayou Classic

Following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, organizers moved the 2005 event from the Superdome to Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas, where many of New Orleans' evacuees were living.

Better Life

Urban closed that awards show with a live performance of the song, featuring a long interpolation of Bruce Springsteen's "The Rising" and backing vocals from a large choir consisting of displaced persons from the previous summer's Hurricane Katrina.

Big Six wheel

(The casino was destroyed in 2005 by Hurricane Katrina.) The symbols were combinations of three of a number of different horses, arranged to represent a winner, a second-placed horse and a third-placed horse.

Bond No. 9

As New Orleans was rebuilding post Hurricane Katrina, Bond wanted to bring the essence of New York to a coveted place like New Orleans.

Buildings and architecture of New Orleans

During Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita, several historic New Orleans neighborhoods were flooded, and numerous historic buildings were severely damaged.

Bush–Clinton era

Outside politics, the two of them have worked together on a number of important issues, such as relief for victims of 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and Hurricane Katrina, lending their combined influence to charities and awareness initiatives.

Carl Petter Opsahl

Opsahl was central to the support measures for the city of New Orleans after the Hurricane Katrina (2005).

Center for Natural Hazards Research

The center received more than $200,000 in grants from the National Science Foundation in 2006 to study the effects of Hurricane Katrina on the gulf region and investigate reconstruction efforts in New Orleans.

Chesapeake College

Katrina- When a category 5 hurricane, named Katrina, swept through the Gulf coast August 2005 causing mass destruction and casualties, Chesapeake College came together as a community and organized a variety of relief efforts.

Columbus Wardogs

The team was not able to begin play in Biloxi due to damage to the Mississippi Coast Coliseum by Hurricane Katrina.

Conroe Independent School District

In 2005, CISD enrolled displaced Louisianans from the areas affected by Hurricane Katrina who were residing in the Conroe ISD boundaries.

Consulate-General of Indonesia, Houston

The consulate coordinated some relief efforts for victims of the Banda Aceh tsunami generated by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and, later in 2005, Hurricane Katrina.

Continuous integrated triage

Continuous Integrated Triage was developed by the Founding Chairperson, Maurice A. Ramirez, of the American Board of Disaster Medicine by applying the lessons learned at the Louis Armstrong International Airport in New Orleans, Louisiana following the 2005 Hurricane Katrina to Mass Casualty Triage at hospitals and healthcare institutions.

Crystal City, Texas

In 2005, the company was retained by officials in Biloxi, Mississippi, to provide drinking water to Hurricane Katrina victims and to establish water remediation needed in the aftermath of the storm along the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

Crystal Hot Sauce

Like much of the company's bottling plant on Tulane Avenue, the sign was substantially damaged by Hurricane Katrina.

ECHL

While the ECHL has stated in recent years they would not grant voluntary suspensions of franchises for more than one year, both the Toledo Storm (now the Toledo Walleye) and Mississippi Sea Wolves (now defunct) were granted two-year suspensions—the Sea Wolves because of Hurricane Katrina and the Storm in order to demolish their present arena and construct a new one in downtown Toledo.

Echologics

In 2010, the Water Board of New Orleans obtained Echologics' services in a year-long contract to assess the condition of selected water lines throughout the city, which sustained significant damage to its water infrastructure during Hurricane Katrina.

Eric Northman

The state of Louisiana was in disarray after the results of Hurricane Katrina, and after queen of Louisiana, Eric's hierarch, was crippled in an explosion and eventually killed by the vampires of Nevada under Felipe de Castro's order.

Flood stage

If cities are at or below sea level, catastrophic flooding can inundate the entire city and cause millions or billions of dollars in damage (such as occurred in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina).

Florida Keys

In 2005, Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma affected the Keys (although none made a direct hit), causing widespread damage and flooding.

Hurricane Katrina, which went on to devastate parts of Louisiana and Mississippi, moved through south Florida in August 2005 and tracked southwest past Key West, causing minor damage and flooding.

For One Night

The movie was filmed in summer 2005 in Louisiana just before Hurricane Katrina.

Grantham University

In 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit Grantham University's main campus in Slidell, Louisiana, destroying approximately eighty percent of their facilities.

Grizzly Smith

The pair lost most of their possessions in the damage caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Gulf States Toyota Distributors

To prepare for another Hurricane Katrina event and to provide additional vehicle processing capacity, the company planned the construction of a $50 million Inland Processing facility in Temple, Texas, which should break ground in 2009 in Rail Park at Central Pointe.

Hard Luck

Shortly after his release from prison, Lucky tries to get back on his feet but inexplicably ends up a victim of Hurricane Katrina's wrath, and loses his newly found life.

Heathen City

While the story takes place in existing modern locations and references real-world persons and events (such as the Hurricane Katrina disaster in New Orleans), all characters are portrayed as anthropomorphic animals (albeit in modern clothes).

Help Is on the Way

According to KROQ, the song was inspired by McIlrath's time in New Orleans while on a tour break and the massive amounts of destruction he witnessed in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast after both Hurricane Katrina and the BP oil disaster.

Human Performance Center

The arena was used as the temporary home of the UNO men's and women's basketball teams from the 2005-2006 season until 2008 while Lakefront Arena was being repaired following Hurricane Katrina.

Humanitarian International Services Group

Kay Hiramine, HISG’s CEO, was awarded the President’s Volunteer Service Award for his work during Hurricane Katrina.

Hurricane Katrina emphasized the need for cooperation between private sector organizations and between the private sector and government agencies.

Hurricane Katrina: We Gon Bounce Back

Released less than three months after Hurricane Katrina, which impacted the group's hometown of New Orleans, this album was dedicated to the victims of the disaster.

IZOD IndyCar World Championships

For 2005, the name of the race was changed to the Hurricane Relief 400, and it served as a fundraiser for Hurricane Katrina recovery.

Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

The largest effort of 2005 was the response to the humanitarian crisis of Hurricane Katrina.

Life Is Worth Losing

Not long after the show was scheduled to be aired and recorded, Hurricane Katrina took place, forcing Carlin to again consider a new title.

Linda Sánchez

Following Hurricane Katrina in late August 2005, President George W. Bush suspended the Davis-Bacon Act, a 1934 law that requires government contractors to pay prevailing wages.

Livin Out Loud

"So Amazing" was the featured track on Bob Mardis' award-winning documentary, Keeping The Faith, about rebuilding efforts by faith-based organizations after Hurricane Katrina.

Lonely Train

Additionally, a music video in black and white, giving the video a dark and gloomy feeling in combination with the aggressive manner of the song, was directed for "Lonely Train", which features the band members playing in a warehouse in post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans, which the band thought was an appropriate setting to reflect the song's anti-war statement.

Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra

Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 caused the LPO's musicians to evacuate.

Louisville Gardens

The facility has served the city of Louisville and Jefferson County in a variety of ways during the past century, from utilization as an actual armory to American Basketball Association's Kentucky Colonels basketball games, to various wrestling events, concerts, political rallies, and Hurricane Katrina flood relief have also been staged there.

Low and Behold

The film uses neorealistic and documentary techniques interwoven with actors in fictional narrative story into a post-Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans.

MaggieMoo's Ice Cream and Treatery

According to the company, their activities, all fronted by their mascot, include "rescuing animals with the Humane Society, raising money for the Hurricane Katrina Victims, walking in support of a cure for breast cancer, assisting schools to raise money, or helping Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts earn their badges."

Magnum Psyche

During the time that Michael Brown, of Hurricane Katrina fame served as the judge's and stewards commissioner of the International Arabian Horse Association (now the Arabian Horse Association, Boggs was accused of participating in unnecessary cosmetic surgery on a number of horses, including surgery on the throatlatch on Magnum Psyche, which Boggs claimed was not cosmetic, but necessary to address a cribbing problem.

Man from Delmonte

After Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005, West and his family relocated to Lawrence, Kansas.

Maryland Electric Deregulation

Subsequently, when Hurricane Katrina and Rita caused major natural gas pipelines to shut down for a short period, natural gas prices skyrocketed.

Medical ventilator

After Hurricane Katrina, dedicated staff "bagged" patients in New Orleans hospitals for days with simple bag valve units attached to endotracheal tubes, a "ventilator" system which can be used with no definite time limit.

Mississippi Sea Wolves

Damages from Hurricane Katrina to the Mississippi Coast Coliseum forced the team to suspend operations for the 2005–06 and 2006–07 seasons under the ECHL's hardship provisions caused by Hurricane Katrina.

Mr. Bill

On May 27, 2004 CNN showed a segment with Mr. Bill being 'evacuated' from a New Orleans roof the year before Katrina.

Neil Portnow

He also led efforts to help musicians affected by Hurricane Katrina through the Academy's "MusicCares Foundation".

New Orleans Handicap

Due to flooding as a result of Hurricane Katrina, the 2006 edition of the New Orleans Handicap was run at Louisiana Downs in Bossier City, Louisiana.

New Orleans Public Belt Railroad

Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005 caused an estimated $450 million in damage to NOPB equipment and track.

One Brick

One Brick has also hosted over 20 work teams in New Orleans where they have contributed to assisting reconstruction efforts for communities affected by Hurricane Katrina.

Panic buying

2005 Atlantic hurricane season, especially Hurricane Katrina – panic buying of fuel, food and other supplies.

Panty Raiders

Other websites created by the duo include: Plastic Assets, which advertised a new credit card that offered free breast implants to young applicants; Christians Against Hip Hop, which tried to save white girls from the "dangers" of hip hop; and Adopt Black Girls, a fake adoption agency for young girls, which raised awareness about the effects of racist policy after Hurricane Katrina.

Percina aurora

Hurricane Katrina impacted the local area, washing pollutants and salt water into the river.

Pet Emergency Management

The destructive force of Hurricane Katrina exposed many flaws in our nation’s emergency preparedness programs.

Phi Kappa National Fraternity

The devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina in 2005 was concentrated on the Mississippi Gulf Coast (where all but one of the remaining Phi Kappa chapters were located).

Phi Sigma Sigma

Named for Phi Sigma Sigma's twin ideals - to promote the brotherhood of man and alleviate the world's pain - the fund has contributed to aid organizations in the aftermath of the 2004 tsunami in southeast Asia and Hurricane Katrina.

Piccadilly Restaurants

Some of the most notable servings include Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, where over 100,000 meals were served, and the April 2011 tornadoes in Chattanooga, Tennessee and nearby locales in Southeast Tennessee and North Georgia, where over 12,000 meals were served.

Port Bienville Railroad

The railroad was heavily damaged by Hurricane Katrina in 2005 however repairs were made and PBVR is back in full operation.

Punch People

The band was forced out of recording their third self-produced album in 2005, due to the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina.

Rawhide 2010

The bar was affected by the 2005 Hurricane Katrina disaster, and though normally a 24-hour establishment, shut down for many weeks.

Riverboat casino

Following Hurricane Katrina in 2005 several states are now allowing these casinos to be built on land within certain limits from a navigable waterway.

Roadstar

After a series of strong hurricanes in the United States, resulting in the devastating Hurricane Katrina, the UK rockers chose to change their name to Roadstar.

Robert Daniel Conlon

In 2005, the bishop led a group of volunteers to assist the victims of Hurricane Katrina, after hearing Archbishop Alfred Hughes speak about the devastation that Katrina caused in his Archdiocese of New Orleans.

Sawyer Center

Due to the catastrophic devastation brought by Hurricane Katrina, the New Orleans Hornets franchise temporarily relocated their base of operations to Oklahoma City for two seasons in 2005-06 and 2006-07.

Sliver By The River

The Sliver by the River is a nickname for the area of New Orleans, Louisiana closest to the Mississippi River that escaped major flooding after Hurricane Katrina hit the city on August 29, 2005.

Stanwood Duval

Judge Duval issued rulings in 2005 and 2006 in reference to the constitutional rights of victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Stephenson Disaster Management Institute

In February 2007, as a direct result of Hurricane Katrina, LSU alumni Emmet and Toni Stephenson donated $25 million to LSU.

Strategic National Stockpile

Following landfall of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita on the Gulf coast of Mississippi and Louisiana in September 2005, CDC deployed SNS assets, technical assistance and response units, plus federal medical contingency stations to state-approved locations near or in the disaster areas.

Sugar Money

Over the next few months the band continued to play live shows (including a benefit for victims of Hurricane Katrina and an appearance at Cleveland's House of Blues) and TV gigs promoting Bo's debut CD, The Real Thing, including LIVE!

Tawny Cypress

She previously starred on Fox's drama K-Ville as Ginger "Love Tap" LeBeau, a police officer who suffers the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Taylor Energy

Taylor has been actively supporting the reconstruction of New Orleans since its destruction during Hurricane Katrina.

Telecommunications policy of the United States

National Security: With the recent events of our world, such as 9-11, Hurricane Katrina, and others it has been deemed essential that we have in place a dedicated network with ample spectrum for crisis communication.

The Age of Miracles

She commented that the album's title track reflects on Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, while the album's seventh track ("Mrs. Hemingway") is about the first wife of author Ernest Hemingway.

Thunder Horse PDQ

The platform took a nearly-direct hit six weeks later from Hurricane Katrina, but was undamaged.

Tony Coolidge

Inspired by training in Landmark Education, Tony founded the volunteer organization Katrina's Angels in response to the Hurricane Katrina disaster in New Orleans.

TS State of Maine

State of Maine was called into active duty by the Maritime Administration (MARAD) following Hurricane Katrina and provided living quarters for oil rig workers, who were working to repair damaged rigs, and for Federal Law Enforcement Officers assisting in New Orleans.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers civil works controversies

In August 2005, forty years later, when Hurricane Katrina passed to the east of New Orleans, the Corps's flood protection failed catastrophically with levee breaches in over 50 places.

Ultrasonic Studios, New Orleans

In 2005, the studio suffered major damage from the levee failure disaster flood during Hurricane Katrina, and has not been back in operation since.

United States House of Representatives elections in Mississippi, 2006

This district, heavily devastated by Hurricane Katrina, covers the Mississippi Gulf Coast and inland areas directly north of it.

United States Senate election in Arizona, 2006

In an anticlimactic move, an e-mail was sent out shortly after the first saying that the announcement would be postponed due to Hurricane Katrina.

United States Senate election in Mississippi, 2006

While it had been speculated that Lott might retire after his home was destroyed in Hurricane Katrina, he instead chose to run for re-election.

Wake Me Up When September Ends

The song was performed live with U2 guitarist The Edge in the pregame show of the Monday Night Football game between the New Orleans Saints and the Atlanta Falcons; it was the first game played in the Superdome in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.

The song eventually became a tribute song to the victims of Hurricane Katrina, and sound bites were added from various news coverages to the song.

Wiki journalism

Where Wikinews – and indeed Wikipedia - has been most successful, however, is in covering large news events involving large numbers of people, such as Hurricane Katrina and the Virginia Tech Shootings, where first hand experience, or the availability of first hand accounts, forms a larger part of the entry, and where the wealth of reportage makes a central ‘clearing house’ valuable.

William Freudenburg

It was published in August 2009, on the fourth anniversary of Katrina: Catastrophe in the Making: The Engineering of Katrina and the Disasters of Tomorrow.

WLAE-TV

Following Hurricane Katrina, WLAE sustained damage to their transmitter and remained off the air to terrestrial viewers until early 2007.

Zurich Classic of New Orleans

In 2005, it was played at the TPC of Louisiana in Avondale, Louisiana, but damage done to the course by Hurricane Katrina forced the event back to English Turn G&CC in 2006.


785 Records

The label's first release was the charity single Come Together Now, written by Rich, Sharon Stone, Mark Feist and Damon Sharpe from which the proceeds went to benefit the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Ashbritt

The Army Corps of Engineers awarded AshBritt a contract worth $850 million to remove Hurricane Katrina debris in Mississippi, with an option to increase the dollar amount to one billion dollars.

Barkeater Lake

In October 2005 Pandolph and fellow United Media cartoonist Stephan Pastis (Pearls Before Swine) auctioned signed original Sunday strips on eBay to raise money for victims of Hurricane Katrina.

City Place Mall

The event was sponsored by D.C.'s hit music station Hot 99.5, and was in support of her debut album Music of the Sun, with proceeds donated to victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Crescent Rising

Crescent Rising is a program of the Reggie White Foundation, begun in May 2007, that offers free demolition services to homeowners in the metropolitan New Orleans area affected by Hurricane Katrina.

Elizabeth Cohen

She focuses on health-related issues and has reported from a medical angle on major news stories like the Gulf oil spill, the 2010 Haiti earthquake and Hurricane Katrina.

Harry Anderson

Following the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Anderson stepped back into the spotlight becoming an outspoken critic of the federal government and New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin.

History of the School of Advanced Military Studies

Its officers also deployed to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to assist the military's Joint Task Force and the Federal Emergency Management Agency after Hurricane Katrina.

Jed Horne

He is also the author of two books: Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of an American City, which chronicles the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the slow Federal response to the disaster, and Desire Street: A True Story of Death and Deliverance in New Orleans, which was nominated for the 2006 Edgar Award for non-fiction crime writing.

Kevin Kolevar

On behalf of the Secretary of Energy, Kolevar coordinated energy response efforts with the energy industry and other federal agencies after Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma.

Landon Collins

When Hurricane Katrina hit the city in 2005, Collins and his family had to leave, and eventually settled in Geismar, Louisiana.

Leon County Emergency Medical Services

Most recently, members of the Special Operations Unit have been deployed to Mississippi following Hurricane Katrina and to South Florida following the devastating 2005 Atlantic hurricane season there.

Mannie Garcia

Garcia's photograph of President George W. Bush surveying the damage from Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 from the high remove of Air Force One became a symbol of his administration's slow and detached reaction to the human suffering and wreckage below.

Milton C. Davis

The World Policy Council has published white papers on the Politics of Nigeria, War on Terrorism, Hurricane Katrina, Millennium Challenge Account, and Extraordinary Rendition.

Mobile Regional Airport

It was at the Mobile Regional Airport that President George W. Bush, in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina on September 2, 2005, praised Michael D. Brown, director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

Paolo Pellegrin

In the same year he covered the aftermath of the Tsunami and hurricane Katrina and won two World Press Photo awards, one for his work on the funeral of Pope John Paul II, and another for the reportage on the backstage of fashion shows in NYC.

Profiles in Folly

Profiles in Folly is a historical book written by Alan Axelrod which is composed of many other true stories within the book itself, beginning with the Trojan War in "The Decision To Let Danger In", and ending with Hurricane Katrina in "The Decision to Stop Short of Leadership".

Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media

This project has inspired a new project, the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, which is collecting the stories and digital artifacts related to the Hurricane Katrina, Rita, and Wilma.

Whitney Fitzsimmons

Previously Fitzsimmons was a news presenter for Australia Network and anchored major world events such as the 7 July 2005 London bombings, the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, the Palestinian elections and the end of Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon's political career.