St. Bernard Parish honors lives lost during Hurricane Katrina

Published: Aug 28, 2024 Duration: 00:02:33 Category: News & Politics
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If you were keeping track of that calendar today is August 29th. That day hits home for many of us here in Southeast Louisiana. It's the day both hurricanes, Katrina and Ida made landfall Katrina in plaque, it's parish and in Hancock County in 2005 and Ida in Port Foucher in 2021 to this day, Katrina is still considered the costliest hurricane to ever hit Louisiana and Mississippi, nearly 1400 people were killed in the category three storm and the intense flooding that came when the levees broke, there were more than 50 breaches of the New Orleans levee system during that storm. And as the city's pumping stations were disabled. By that time, Katrina had passed more than 80% of New Orleans was under water. More than a million people were ordered to evacuate the city. Thousands never returned. Now, 19 years later, Katrina still holds the record of the costliest hurricane in us history with nearly $200 billion in damages. ST Bernard Parish was just one of the areas that was left in ruins. After hurricane Katrina, the storm overwhelmed the levees and flooded the entire parish year after year, people gather to honor those lives lost and look back at where we've been, look ahead to where we're going. Our Winston Reid is in Shell Beach with more parish hosted a ceremony Commemorating the lives lost in the horrific storm. Joan Emerson, Mabel Johnson, Francis Navis. Council members read the names of the 165 people who died 19 years ago. Every year. On this day, Terry Petrie places a wreath in the water in remembrance of those hurricane Katrina victims. Petrie's mother died in the storm. It's been a long road to recovery for Saint Bernard parish. The population in the parish dropped by nearly half and a few years after Katrina Parish president Louis Paul Mays who also lost two homes says in recent history, the parish is regaining its strength in numbers. It was Henry Rodrigue president. He worked very hard with the clean up trying to set everything up for the infrastructure to go back together, you know, public school system, the fire department and hospitals and you know, roadway homes. It amazing progress that went through S Benoit Pat. Coming up later on Wwl Louisiana, we hear from Terry Petrie who invites us into his mother's home reporting in Saint Bernard parish, Winston, Reid, Wwl Louisiana.

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