This slideshow was posted on YouTube by Tara3121.

This is a video to shed some light and encouragement during one of the greatest natural disasters we have ever witnessed. Music by American Idol finalist and gospel recording artist George Huff featuring “Hold onto love”.

More than two years after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated the Gulf Coasts of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Texas; all many people still have to hold onto is love and hope.

Thank you, Volunteers. You are making the difference in rebuilding lives and communities.

See more pictures in the Hurricane Katrina Picture Book by Jeffery Morgan.

Read Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City by Jed Horne.

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Slide show presented by lilspoiledazn on YouTube. Video caption:
“A clip of the tragedies from Hurricane Katrina”

I watched and posted the slide shows and the video today, and I’m still heartbroken about this tragedy. Two years later, I can’t look at these pictures and not cry. Maybe that’s a good thing. I didn’t feel anything for so long. I didn’t grieve for the loss of the city I used to call home from 1977-1985, the city I graduated high school in and the city where I had family ties and old friends until 2005.

I didn’t look at any picture of Katrina’s aftermath for two years after I’d spent so much time going back and forth between Baton Rouge and New Orleans to help my mom move.The saddest thing about these pictures is that after two years so many of the houses in so many neighborhoods are still in shambles. Their owners will never return. The current New Orleans population is about half of what it was before Hurricane Katrina. I don’t believe it will grow much beyond that unless the levees, flood walls and hurricane protection systems are brought up to withstand a strong category 5 hurricane. I had thought about moving to Metairie to be more accessible to my potential client base. But I’ll never move farther south than Ascension Parish now. It’s just too risky.

See more pictures in the Hurricane Katrina Picture Book by Jeffery Morgan.

Read Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City by Jed Horne.

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This video slide show was made by Nedim and it’s located on YouTube.

The music in this slide show is “Wake Me Up When September Ends” by Green Day. It is so perfect for the story and so haunting at the same time. Every time I see a picture or video of any part of Katrina, that song comes to mind immediately. It seems to have become my theme song for the disaster.

See more pictures in the Hurricane Katrina Picture Book by Jeffery Morgan.

Read Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City by Jed Horne.

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