Hurricane Katrina Videos and Archive

It’s been a year since Katrina, and in spite of all the people weighing in about who is to blame, few people seem to understand the problem. Absent the levee breaks, most of the area would have been back to normal in a couple of weeks. Katrina didn’t really hit New Orleans – she brushed us, and we were on the “good” side. (The west side of a hurricane is the weak side.) St. Bernard Parish suffered a great deal more devastation, but then unlike New Orleans, it actually got a direct hit.

So the first step in assigning blame is to understand the real problem. The levee breaks. Paul at Wizbang pretty much owns this story, and he tells it here. There’s a great deal of blame to go around, starting with the Corps of Engineers and the Orleans Levee Board decades ago. The Levee Board, as I documented right after Katrina, pretty much exists to please itself and the Governor who appointed the board members.

Check my Katrina archive especially the euthanasia or alleged murders that may have been committed in a hospital a few days after Katrina. There is also a video made by one of the youth at my church with extensive footage of the damage, especially of the Gentilly (London Ave.) levee break.

Looking for the video of the 17th St. Canal breaking during the hurricane? Click here: Video: New Orleans 17th Street Canal Levee Break

Jared, one of the youth in my church, took a lot of video after Katrina and assembled this fantastic footage, set to “God is God” by Steven Curtis Chapman. The footage includes scenes taken during the repair of the 17th St. Canal levee break, and where the London Avenue canal levee broke, as well as other scenes of Katrina’s destruction.

There are several different sizes, obviously the largest is the best quality, but depending on your connection, you may need one of the smaller ones. Although you could just email the file around, please send people a link to this page to get the video – for one thing, that’s kinder to their inboxes, they can select the size file they want to download, and for another, Jared and I are really interested in knowing how many people watch the video!

You can view the video now via Google Video, or use the links below to download it.

Hurricane Katrina Video

Looking for Laura loves Katrina video? Click here.