Hurricane Katrina: 10 years on
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Photography by ALAN CHINBut over the next several days, it became clear that something was very wrong, and that something wasn’t only the levees breaking and 80 percent of the city disappearing under water. The fabric of rational disaster response came apart before our eyes.
- Alan Chin, contributing photographer
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Thousands of people — including many rescued off of rooftops by helicopters — were were initially taken to an assembly area at the highway overpass intersecting Interstate 10 and Causeway Blvd, but they had to wait several days there without power or adequate food before they were finally evacuated. PHOTOGRAPH by ALAN CHIN
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A map of a master plan to protect and restore the Louisiana coast is seen as U.S. President Barack Obama attends a meeting with local leaders at the Andrew P. Sanchez Community Center in Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, Louisiana, August 27, 2015. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
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During a conversation this week, Lawton pointed from the bar over to the beach where his grandmother's casket was found washed up after Katrina, uprooted from a nearby cemetery.
Despite the recollections, Lawton, like many others along this coastline, is mostly upbeat. He wants to look to the future now.
"It is getting there," he said. "It will take time. It will be better than it was."
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With rhythm and reverence, New Orleans marks 10 years since Katrina
ReutersNew Orleans, a town renowned for staging big celebrations, faces a tricky challenge on Saturday, 10 years to the day from when Hurricane Katrina slammed into southeast Louisiana and triggered flooding -
I know that for many people, this anniversary unearths old wounds, but it's also a healing process. The pain never goes away, but it helps to know that loved ones who were lost are being remembered."
- Barbara Blackwell, whose home in the Gentilly neighborhood was a casualty of the floods
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Ninth Ward area resident Obligher Wegrer (R), who lost her sister and nephew during Hurricane Katrina, reacts during a memorial anniversary ceremony dedicated to the victims of the hurricane at the reconstructed wall of the levee at the Lower Ninth Ward canal in New Orleans August 29, 2006. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
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A man drives past Gallery 220 in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, August 26, 2015. Ten years ago this week, the eye of Hurricane Katrina ripped through Pass Christian and Bay St. Louis, which face each other across a small bay 60 miles (97 km) east of New Orleans. REUTERS/Jonathan Bachman
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Ten years after Katrina, resilient New Orleans honors its victims
NEW ORLEANS | BY KATHY FINN AND EDWARD MCALLISTER
From the Lower Ninth Ward to the Super Dome, New Orleans launched a day of events on Saturday to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, paying tribute to its victims and homage to the city's resilience in the face of disaster.
The day began with a somber ceremony led by Mayor Mitch Landrieu to remember the 83 "forgotten" victims whose unclaimed bodies now rest in mausoleums at the Hurricane Katrina Memorial, housed in one of the city's historic above-ground cemeteries.
Katrina killed more than 1,500 people, mostly in flooding that left 80 percent of New Orleans under water. Thirty of the bodies remain unidentified a decade later.
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Though they are unnamed, they are not unclaimed because we claim them."-Mayor Mitch Landrieu on the still unidentified dead, speaking on August 29 2015
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A celebration would not be the right gesture for those who will never be made whole."
- Kristian Sonnier, an official at the New Orleans Convention and Visitors Bureau
A brass band performs in Jackson Square one day before the ten year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, Louisiana, August 28, 2015. REUTERS/Jonathan Bachman -
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Performers from Gallery of the Streets participate in a ceremony at the site of the 2005 Industrial Canal levee failure marking the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina in the Lower 9th Ward in New Orleans, Louisiana August 29, 2015. REUTERS/Edmund D. Fountain
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Community members marking the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina by taking part in a remembrance ceremony at the site of the 2005 Industrial Canal levee failure, pray before marching in a second-line parade through the Lower 9th Ward into downtown New Orleans, Louisiana August 29, 2015. REUTERS/Edmund D. Fountain
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