As medical professionals, we all encounter tragedy daily — car wrecks, shootings, strokes and sudden deaths. But nothing prepared us for what we witnessed at the Superdome during Katrina. I served as ...
On August 28, 2005, thousands of people lined up to enter the Superdome, just as they had done countless times since the stadium opened 30 years before. Only this time, they weren’t getting ready to ...
When Hurricane Katrina ripped through the Gulf Coast in August 2005, it left New Orleans devastated and tens of thousands displaced. In the days that followed, Houston’s Reliant Astrodome opened its ...
Editor’s note: A new series “New Orleans: Soul of a City” explores the many ways the city communes with its history – through music, food, sports and tradition – revealing how, 20 years after Katrina, ...