Hurricane news for individual counties and cities in Louisiana, Mississippi

Hurricane Katrina left a path of destruction in its wake across Louisiana, Mississippi, and other southern states. If an effort to provide timely and location-specific information, below is a list of news article links for individual counties and cities across the region.

MISSISSIPPI

Adams County,
Alcorn County,
Batesville,
Bay St. Louis,
Benton County,
Biloxi,
Bolivar County,
Brandon,
Brookhaven,
Calhoun County,
Canton,
Carroll County,
Centreville,
Chickasaw County,
Choctaw County,
Clarke County,
Clarksdale,
Cleveland,
Clinton,
Coahoma County,
Columbus,
Copiah County,
Corinth,
Covington County,
D’Iberville,
Florence,
Flowood,
Forrest County,
Franklin County,
Gautier,
George County,
Greene County,
Greenville,
Greenwood,
Grenada,
Gulfport,
Hancock County,
Harrison County,
Hattiesburg,
Hernando,
Hinds County,
Holly Springs,
Issaquena County,
Itawamba County,
Itta Bena,
Jackson,
Jackson County,
Jasper County,
Jefferson County,
Jefferson Davis County,
Jones County,
Kemper County,
Kosciusko,
Lafayette County,
Lamar County,
Lauderdale County,
Laurel,
Lawrence County,
Leake County,
Lee County,
Leflore County,
Lincoln County,
Madison,
Madison County,
Marion County,
Marshall County,
McComb,
Meridian,
Monroe County,
Montgomery County,
Moss Point,
Natchez,
Newton County,
Ocean Springs,
Oktibbeha County,
Oxford,
Pascagoula,
Pearl,
Pearl River County,
Perry County,
Petal,
Picayune,
Pike County,
Pontotoc,
Pontotoc County,
Poplarville,
Port Gibson,
Prentiss County,
Rankin County,
Richland,
Ridgeland,
Scott County,
Simpson County,
Smith County,
Southaven,
Starkville,
Sunflower County,
Tallahatchie County,
Tate County,
Tippah County,
Tishomingo County,
Tunica County,
Tupelo,
Union County,
Vancleave,
Vicksburg,
Warren County,
Washington County,
Waveland,
Wayne County,
Waynesboro,
West Point,
Wilkinson County,
Winona,
Woodville,
Yazoo City,
Yazoo County

LOUISIANA

Acadia Parish,
Alexandria,
Ascension Parish,
Assumption Parish,
Baton Rouge,
Beauregard Parish,
Bossier City,
Bossier Parish,
Caddo Parish,
Calcasieu Parish,
Caldwell Parish,
Cameron Parish,
Chalmette,
Concordia Parish,
Covington,
East Baton Rouge Parish,
East Feliciana Parish,
Evangeline Parish,
Folsom,
Grant Parish,
Hahnville,
Harvey,
Houma,
Iberia Parish,
Iberville Parish,
Jackson,
Jefferson Davis Parish,
Jefferson Parish,
Kenner,
Lafayette,
Lafayette Parish,
Lafourche Parish,
Lake Charles,
Laplace,
Lincoln Parish,
Livingston Parish,
Madisonville,
Mandeville,
Marrero,
Metairie,
Monroe,
Morehouse Parish,
Natchitoches Parish,
New Iberia,
New Orleans,
Orleans Parish,
Ouachita Parish,
Plaquemines Parish,
Pointe Coupee Parish,
Rapides Parish,
Red River Parish,
Richland Parish,
Sabine Parish,
Shreveport,
Slidell,
St. Bernard Parish,
St. Charles Parish,
St. James Parish,
St. John the Baptist Parish,
St. Landry Parish,
St. Martin Parish,
St. Mary Parish,
St. Tammany Parish,
Tangipahoa Parish,
Tensas Parish,
Terrebonne Parish,
Terrytown,
Vermilion Parish,
Vernon Parish,
Washington Parish,
Webster Parish,
West Baton Rouge Parish,
West Carroll Parish,
West Feliciana Parish

Some further background information on Hurricane Katrina from Wikipedia.org:

Hurricane Katrina was a powerful tropical cyclone which caused extensive and severe damage in the southeastern United States and will likely become the worst natural disaster to hit the United States with major global economic consequences caused by disruption of oil supplies, exports, and imports. Disaster relief plans are in operation in the affected communities. Some experts predict one million people could become homeless as a result of the storm. Currently five million people are without power in the Gulf Coast region, and it may be two months before all power is restored.



The aftermath of the storm compounded problems. In particular, the breaching of some levees protecting New Orleans caused water to flow unabated into the city. There was also widespread looting, with many people stranded due to flooding.



Katrina may be the deadliest hurricane in the United States of America since the Galveston Hurricane of 1900, which killed around 8,000 (possibly up to 12,000) people. The death toll of Katrina so far may be “in the thousands”, stated by the New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin on August 31, but it will take weeks before accurate numbers are known. Katrina is also expected to be the costliest natural disaster in United States history, exceeding the 1992 Hurricane Andrew.

Other resources:

• NASA releases satellite photos showing flooded New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina: NASA released satellite photos showing destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina. The images, available on NASA’s Earth Observatory web site clearly show signficant parts of the city inundated with flood water.
• Environmental problems worsened Hurricane Katrina’s impact: The loss of coastal marshlands that buffer New Orleans from flooding and storm surges may have worsened the impact of Hurricane Katrina.
• Aerial photos of Hurricane Katrina destructiont: NOAA posted online more than 1450 aerial images of the U.S. Gulf Coast areas that were decimated by Hurricane Katrina.
• Photos from inside Hurricane Katrina captured by NOAA plane: NOAA hurricane hunter WP-3D Orion and Gulfstream IV aircraft conducted ten long flights into and around the eye of Hurricane Katrina. Lt. Mike Silah, a P-3 pilot, got to see Hurricane Katrina up close and personal, especially when she was an extremely dangerous Category Five storm in the Gulf of Mexico.
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