A new book identifies former Mayor Ray Nagin as one of those men. “Katrina: After the Flood” is as harrowing as it is riveting in recounting the tale of a city too broken to fight off its ...

1. Katrina makes landfall in Louisiana at 6:10 a.m., but the flooding of residential areas in greater New Orleans actually begins an hour and a half earlier. Between 4:30 and 5 a.m., levees ...

"Haven't seen this kind of flooding from being overwhelmed by this much water from our drainage canals since Katrina, it's sad to say." Chief Conley said 40-50 cars are stalled out at major ...