Katrina Response Required Difficult, Unorthodox Decisions

When Hurricane Katrina hit Plaquemines Parish nearly 20 years ago on August 29, 2005, it became abundantly clear that the parish would be fundamentally altered. The mere extent of the devastation—with the majority of homes completely destroyed and parish infrastructure gone—immediately signaled that much of Plaquemines had been reduced to little more than remnants of its pre-Katrina conditi...

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