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Fox News; Gretna Bridge Incident and
Fraiser, Jim
France
Frank, Judy
Freedom Movement
Freeport-McMoran
French Acadians, see Cajuns, Cajun area
French Quarter (Vieux Carré); bars in; Bourbon Street in; electricity in; lack of flooding in; literature and; looting in; media coverage of; non-evacuees in; restaurants in; tourists in; upper class in
Fricke, David
“From tha 13th to tha 17th” (B.G.)
Froomkin, Dan
Galatoire’s
Galveston, Tex., hurricane in (1900)
Gambino, Angie
Gambit Weekly
gambling; floating casinos; in Mississippi; in New Orleans
gangs; in hotels; at Morial Center
GAO, see Government Accountability Office, U.S.
Garcia, Jo Ann
Garden District; evacuation of; mansions of; photographs of; tourists in; upper class in
Garden District Bookshop
Gary, Elton
gas, natural
gasoline; fires from; pollution from; of Times reporters
Gates, Bill
Gemini Records
General Electric
generators
Gentilly
Georgia, deaths in
Georgia National Guard
Georgie, Marko
Giants Stadium, Compass’s trip to
Gibson, Jabar
Giddens, Jeff
Giuliani, Rudolph
global warming
Goff, Libby
Goldblatt, Jeff
“golden hour, the”
“Gone with the Water” (Bourne)
Gone with the Wind (Mitchell)
Gonzales, La.; Tanger Outlet Center in
González, Elián
Goodman, Julie
Good Morning America (TV show)
“Good Roads” movement
Gorman, R. C.
Goux, Rene
Government Accountability Office, U.S. (GAO)
Goyeneche, Rafael C., III
Graham, Sean
Grand Gosier Island
Grand Palace Hotel
Grand Isle, La.
Grapes of Wrath, The (Steinbeck)
Grapple, USS
Gray, Terius (Juvenile)
Gray, William
Great Britain
Great Depression
Great Galveston Hurricane (1900)
Great Hurricane (1722)
Great Mississippi Flood (1927)
Great Storm (1909)
Green, Robert
Green, Sedona
Green, Tommy
Green, Yvonne
Greenpeace
Gretna, La.
Gretna Bridge Incident
Greyhound
Greyhound Bus Terminal
Griffith, Frank
Griffiths, Richard
Grinds, Kache
Grizzly Bear (punker)
Guam, typhoon Omar in
Guardian
Gulf Coast region: Bush’s tour of; as federal disaster area; mental crumbling of; see also specific places
Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, see Intracoastal Waterway
Gulfport, Miss.
Gulfport Bay
Gulfport-Boloxi Airport
Gulf Shores, Ala.
gun violence; at Charity Hospital; rescue missions impeded by
Gupta, Sanjay
Gusman, Marlon
Hagin, Joe
Haiti
Hall, Anne
Halsey, William “Bull”
Hamilton, Jack
Hammond, La.
Hancock County, Miss.; EOC of; see also Bay St. Louis; Waveland
Hancock Medical Center
Haralson, Jasmine
Harbin, Ronald
Harbor Police, New Orleans
Hardball (TV show)
Hargrove, Gary
Harper, Jean
Harper’s
Harrah’s Casino; NOPD at
Harrah’s Entertainment
Harrington, Michael
Harris, Allie
Harris, Booker
Harris, Frank
Harris, Mike
Harris, Ronnie
Harris County, Tex.
Harrison County, Miss.; deaths in; see also Biloxi; Gulfport
Harrison County Emergency Management Agency
Hatfield, Brenda
Hattiesburg, Miss.
Haydel, Wendy
Hayes, Brian
Hazmat (hazardous materials)
Health and Human Services Department, U.S. (HHS)
Hearn, Philip D.
Heinz, Harry
helicopters accidents from; Bahamonde’s tour by; Blanco’s surveys by; Coast Guard, see Coast Guard, helicopters of; FEMA’s use of; in hospital evacuations; levee breaches viewed from; in Morial Center evacuation; news; shooting at; for Superdome evacuation
Hemingway, Ernest
Henderson, Greg
Henderson Point, Miss.
Herbert, Troy
heroin
Hess, Stephen
Hicks, Tyler
Higgens, Todd
“High Water Everywhere” (Patton)
Highway; destruction of; Waveland police on
Hill, Fitzgerald
Hill, Lance
Hilton
Hingle, Dorothy
Hingle, Jeff
hiphop
Hirst, Larry
Hispanics
Holditch, Ken
Hollings, Fritz
Holloway, A. J.
Hollygrove
Hollywood, Calif.
Holm, Josh; Morial Center and
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
Holocaust
Home Depot
Homeland Security and Public Affairs Office, New Orleans
Homeland Security Department, U.S. (DHS); Brown’s memo to; Coast Guard and; criticism of; “fast analysis report” of; FEMA absorbed into; international embarrassment and; oil and; terrorism orientation of; see also Chertoff, Michael
homeless people; in Mississippi; in New Orleans; NOPD as
Honore, Charles
Honore, Russel
Hospital Corporation of America
hospitals; in Baton Rouge; in Mississippi
hospitals, New Orleans; evacuation of; flooding of; see also specific hospitals
hospital ships
hotels
hotels, New Orleans; closing of; gangs in; media in; Nagin’s fear of lawsuit by; non-evacuees in; tourists in; see also specific hotels
Houck, Oliver
Houma, La.
House of Representatives, U.S.
housing: affordable; destruction of; looting of; post-Katrina
Housing Act (1937)
housing developments: in New Orleans; in suburbs
Houston, Tex.; evacuations to; New Orleans compared with; NOPD in; Red Cross in; Reliant Park in; Times bureau in
Houston Chronicle
Houston Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
“How Bush Blew It” (Thomas)
Huberty, Chris
Huckabee, Mike
Hudson, Audrey
Hughes, Alfred
Hughes, Langston
humor
Huntsman, Jon, Jr.
Hurricane Andrew (1992)
Hurricane Betsy (1965)
Hurricane Camille (1969); deaths in; Katrina compared with; in Mississippi
Hurricane Camille (Hearn)
Hurricane Carla (1961)
Hurricane Charley (2004)
Hurricane Dennis
Hurricane Donna (1960)
Hurricane Frances (2004)
Hurricane Georges (1998)
Hurricane Hunters, see Weather Reconnaissance Squadron
Hurricane Isabel (2003)
Hurricane Ivan (2004)
Hurricane Jeanne (2004)
Hurric
ane Katrina (2005): barometric pressure reading of; as business opportunity; in Category 1; in Category 3; in Category 4; in Category 5; chain of failures in; deaths attributed to; direction of; as divine retribution; environmental damage from; evacuations and, see evacuations; eye of; eyewall of; first landfall of; in Florida; housing destroyed by; as “incident of national significance”; media coverage of; missing persons after; in Mississippi; NHC advisories and reports on; non-evacuees in, see non-evacuees; psychological damage from; size of; statistics after; storm surge and
Hurricane Pam exercise (2004)
Hurricane Rita
hurricanes: disappearance of wetlands and; as doomsday threat to New Orleans; economic benefits of; Saffir-Simpson Scale for; tracking of; see also National Hurricane Center; National Weather Service; U.S. defanging attempts with
Hurston, Nora Zeale
Hussein, Saddam
Hutter, Nita
Hyatt Regency; Clarkson at; Nagin’s refuge in
I-10; in Alabama; bus operations on; evacuation of; in Florida; in Louisiana; in Mississippi; in Texas
I-55
I-610
Idris, Brandy
Idris, Savannah
Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS)
Imus, Don
“incident of national significance”
Inc. Magazine
income
Indian Ocean tsunami, see Asia, tsunami in
Industrial Canal; bridge over, see St. Claude Avenue Bridge
Industrial Canal levee breach; Jackson Barracks and; Ninth Ward and; St. Bernard Parish and
influenza
ING 4727 barge
Ingalls Shipbuilding
Ingram Barge Company
Inside the Creole Mafia (play)
insurance, insurance companies; home
Insurrection Act (1807)
Interior Department, U.S.
Intracoastal Waterway
Iraq; antiwar movement and; criminal court system in; McLaughlin in; National Guard in
Iraqi National Museum
Irony of a Negro Policeman (Basquiat)
Isaac’s Storm (Larson)
Iverson, Greg
Iwo Jima, USS
Jackson, Alcede
Jackson, Alphonso
Jackson, Andrew
Jackson, Hardy
Jackson, Jesse
Jackson, Michael
Jackson, Miss.
Jackson, Ted
Jackson, Tonette
Jackson, Tony
Jackson, Violet
Jackson Barracks
Jackson County, Miss.; see also Pascagoula, Miss.
Jacksonville, Fla.
Jaffe, Ben
Jaffe, Sarah
James, Tillie
Japan
jazz, jazz musicians
Jeffers, Robinson
Jefferson, Brandy
Jefferson, William
Jefferson Parish; aid obstructed in; evacuations from; firefighters in; flooding in; looting in; pumping stations in; rescue efforts in
Jefferson Parish Response and Rescue Team
Jenson, Terry
Jeter, Mark
Jindal, Piyush “Bobby”
Jo Ellen Smith Hospital
Johnny White’s Sports Bar
Johnson, Al
Johnson, Benjamin
Johnson, Diane
Johnson, Fred, Jr.
Johnson, Harold
Johnson, Jonell
Johnson, Josephine
Johnson, Lyndon B.
Johnson, Pearl
Johnston, Jill
Johnstown Flood, The (McCullough)
Joint Task Force Katrina
Jones, Art
Jones, Benny
Jones, Corey
Jones, Doris M.
Jones, Sam
Jones, Stephen
Jones, Tim
Jones, Dwayne
Jones, Wilma
Jordan, Eddie
journalists: as emergency relief workers; NOPD’s roughing up of; see also specific people
“Joy” (Williams)
Junger, Sebastian
Junior’s Bar
J.W. Marriott Hotel
Kaiser Engineering
Kaiser-Hill
Kane, Harnett T.
Katrina Daily News
Keesler Air Force Base
Kelly, Michael
Kelly, Nicole
Kelly U.S.A. Shelter
Kelt, Annie
Kelt, John
Kennedy, John F.
Kennedy, Robert F., Jr.
Kennedy, Ted
Kenner, La.
Kenyon International Services Inc.
Kern, Barry
Kern, Blaine
Kerry, John
Key West, Fla.
Kimbel, Lillian
Kimbel, Marvin
Kimmel, Jimmy
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
King, Rodney
Kinney, Dan
Kleinpeter, Leonard
Klotzbach, Phillip
Knight, Deonne
Knight, Fredro C., Sr.
Knight, Fredro
Knight, Michael
Knight, Theresa
Knocke, Russ
Kolbert, Elizabeth
KTRK-TV
Kucharek, Michael
Kursk, sinking of
Kuwait
Labor Day Hurricane (1935)
Labou (film)
LaCaze, Keith
Lachin, Laura, see Stepro, Laura Lachin
Lafayette, La.
Lafitte Housing Projects
Lafon Nursing Home of the Holy Family
Laforet, Vince
Lagasse, Emeril
Lake Arthur, La.
Lake Athanasio
Lake Borgne
Lake Charles, La.
Lakely, James G.
Lake Pontchartrain; Coast Guard survey of; floating casino in; flooding from; levee breaches of; see also specific levees; levees of; Mississippi River connection to, see Industrial Canal; pumping stations and; storm surge and
Lake Pontchartrain and Vicinity Hurricane Protection Project
Lake Pontchartrain Causeway; boat rescue at; evacuees at
Lakeview; Bellaire Drive complaints and; Byrne’s house in; flooding in; Foret’s house in; Katrina victims in; looting in
Landreneau, Bennett C.
Landreneau, Dwight
Landrieu, Cheryl
Landrieu, Frank
Landrieu, Mary; in helicopter survey; in news conference; Slidell bungalow of
Landrieu, Mitch; as Homeboy; park fees waived by; in St. Bernard Parish
Landrieu, Moon
Landrum, J. D.
Landstar
Laos, Troilin
Lapham, Lewis
Laque, Albert
Larson, Erik
Las Vegas, Nev.
Latham, Robert
Lawes-Reed, Kathy A.
Lawless, Danny
Lawson, Arthur, Jr.
LCACs
LDWF, see Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries
LeBlanc, Beth
Lee, Harry
Lee, Jim
Lee, Joey
Lee, Robert
Lee, Spike
Lee, Trymaine D.
Lee, Circle
Leftwich, Hal
Lehrer, Jim
Leibovich, Mark
Lemann, Nicholas
Le Moyne, Pierre
Leno, Jay
Leslie, Austin
Letterman, David
Levassier, Michael
levee breaches; Army Corps of Engineers and; Bush and; causes of; dynamiting and; Nagin and; in Plaquemines Parish; prediction of; Robinette’s views on; rumors about; sandbags for; Times reporters and; see also specific breaches
levees; building of; in California; Category-3 proof; community confusion about; diversion of funds from; faith in; improvement of; Mayfield’s warning about
; problems with; see also specific levees
Lewis, Michael
Lieberman, Joe
life preservers
Lil’ Wayne (Dwayne Carter)
Lindy Boggs Medical Center
Little Creek Naval Amphibious Base
Little Rock, Ark.
Loews Hotel
Loewy, Amy
Lokey, Bill
London Avenue Canal; levee breach in
Long, Huey P.
Long, Jerry
Long Beach, Miss.
Longshoremen’s Union
looting; by African Americans; definition of; in Jefferson Parish; in Mississippi; in Oakwood Center Mall
looting, New Orleans; arrests for; “big dump” and; Byrne-MacCash on; commandeering vs.; FEMA fear of; hiphop music and; in hotels; NBC News and; NOPD and; by NOPD; restoration of electricity hampered by; in Riverbend; Roberts’s views on; and shootings; at Superdome; Uptowners fear of
Los Angeles, Calif.
Lott, Trent
Louis Armstrong International Airport; children at; flooding caused by; hospital patients at; as staging area for evacuees
Louisiana; Air Force One flight over; blackouts in, see blackouts; Bush’s visit to; Camille in; corruption in; day of prayer in; deaths in; disappearance of wetlands in; electricity restored in; family networks in; first responders in, see first responders, Louisiana; political contributions in; post-Katrina federal aid for; rescue crews turned away in; state of emergency declared in; as Third World; see also specific places
“Louisiana 1927” (Newman)
Louisiana Conservationist
Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals
Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF; W&F); Cajun Navy with; as first responders
Louisiana National Guard; as bus drivers; clash with Army of; Coast Guard compared with; emergency responders stopped by; fire trucks of; in Iraq; in Jackson Barracks, see Jackson Barracks; looting and; at Morial Center; non-evacuees’ fear of; NOPD and; as pilots; sandbags dropped by; at Superdome; Superdome and
Louisiana Nursing Home Association
Louisiana Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness
Louisiana Offshore Oil Port
Louisiana Purchase
Louisiana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (LSPCA)
Louisiana State Police
Louisiana State University (LSU); Coastal Studies Institute of; Dental School of; Manship School of Mass Communications at; Pete Maravich Assembly Center in
Louisiana State University Hurricane Center
Love, De’Mont-e
Love Canal disaster
Lovett, Ronny
Lovett, Ruth
Lower Ninth Ward; description of; Domino in; evacuations in; flooding in; “high ground” homes in; Jackson Barracks in, see Jackson Barracks; media coverage of; poor people in; rescues in; special-needs people in
Loyola University
Lucas, Terry
Lukas, Brian G.
Luling, La.
Lupin, Ralph
MacArthur, Douglas
McBride, LeaAnne
McCarthy, Cormac
MacCash, Doug