Doomed New Orleans: Hurricane Katrina | National Geographic

[@laurieregal5009]

people can't just "not move back" or even move away. A huge amount of people in new orleans do not have the resources to even make a move. They are barely able to keep their homes now. They do not have cars. New Orleans has a rich culture and history, you cannot just abandon it...

[@jacob1st760]

It’s 2021 right now. Even 16 years later this city still hasn’t recovered from this storm because some people just never came back after it.

[@juju0K_]

@@jacob1st760 it’s late 2021 rn and Ida is here on the anniversary of Katrina

[@tduuub443]

@@juju0K_ yeah same date it will hit crazy

[@jackyourmotherisapussyassc164]

Thats smart

[@pineychristian]

Laurie Regal this area should have never been built up to live on. It was swamp and wetlands before humans decided to destroy it. So I have zero sympathy for people that live near water when they know the risk and if you didn't know it's your fault for not looking into it. There should be no funding or government assistance for living in a area with a known risk like New Orleans. We as a country shouldn't have to be punished for paying for everyone's else's mistakes.

[@PinkBobaicelatte]

Thats my hometown I left before it happen but it still make me cry to watch it my whole life change that day

[@bigdreamsinfotainment]

@@kavitajoshi9833 kyu gaya tha waha.

[@Neyobe]

Peachkitty 😭

[@ninoblacque951]

I am currently visiting N.O. as we speak,and I happen to think it is a very beautiful city,and rich with lots of history and culture.

[@Jemalacane0]

Nino Blacque Be that as it may, it shouldn't have been built where it was.

[@UrbanGrafittitales]

Stfu

[@liviwaslost]

Nino Blacque New Orleans is a very beautiful city indeed.

[@ryanmagee2352]

In live inside no

[@eliza2256]

Went there this year for Mardi Gras and I absolutely love everything about it it’s sooo different eccentric a city like no other

[@MA-lb8dq]

America should hire Dutch engineers. They are the best when it comes to designing cities below sea level.

[@ChrisSmith-zv1qd]

What are dutch engineers?

[@jetlyfe12]

@@ChrisSmith-zv1qd lol engineers from the netherlands.

[@ChrisSmith-zv1qd]

@@jetlyfe12 thanks bro

[@jetlyfe12]

@@ChrisSmith-zv1qd for sure. The reason why is cuz the netherlands (amsterdam/holland) where dutch people are from, the entire country is like 70% under sea level. Their Levee system and anti-flood engineering is the best in the world.

[@nicelol5241]

@@jetlyfe12ut we rather to spend money on creating wars with china and highways, we don’t even have a good healthcare system, imagine our government spending on something that really helps people

[@realtk]

I’m in New Orleans today for the first time. Of course Is 2023 now, and it’s being 18 years since Katrina. I can only imagine what people dealt with back then. Fast forward to 2023, the city is still vibrant and full of life

[@rari2943]

We never go out quietly💯

[@ppl2luv]

hurricane ida is coming tomorrow. i’m so worried for louisiana ):

[@veralvarez1189]

Just pray

[@nicholas.alan85]

We good !

[@yourfavwillow6215]

They good At least I think

[@williamoleschoolarendt7016]

It's the start of hurricane season again and I had to go back and watch some of the videos about Katrina and IDA! Between the two Ida was the worst as far as what I went through! Both were massive and destructive storms but going through both myself I think Ida was slightly worse except for the levies breaking with Katrina!

[@lilvert6072]

I mean the levees are better than the 2005 levees. The levees we're neglected for centuries and now that a natural disaster hit they made the levees more stronger. But the coastal wetlands are still sinking and the city is below sea level.

[@tejasnite]

Iam glad there are intelligent people like national geographic they got the full education on this subject

[@greylynnjr]

Well I was unavailable. Glad it turned out 👍 👌 just kidding

[@alexsstorytime2897]

New Orleans is a very very flooding coastal city, but it is also very important because it delivers goods to every state in the US even some parts of Canada🙂🙂🙂

[@mom_im_losing_it]

Yeah so do many other port cities

[@hudsonmatz2123]

@@mom_im_losing_it yea but they got dat shrimp

[@Neyobe]

Not every state. The river doesn’t even reach canada

[@nicholestroup1770]

My deepest sincerest condolences to anybody that has lost any type of loved one and this catastrophe disaster. And to all the people that were left picking up the pieces and having to try to move on my prayers sympathy the best luck to you now

[@howler746]

New Orleans is pretty much becoming atlantis

[@Stender_]

How depressing.

[@pizzahutislife9571]

I asked my grandma and she said it built like a bowl and when it filled up to much it sinks and she put it in a bowl and that hit me hard

[@hobolove2468]

I’m here bc I was born in NO and had to move after this. Well my family moved us bc the schools and crime got so bad after we came back. I keep having horrible dreams of the ocean coming in again, for more than 6 months it feels like. I’m almost scared to go back to even visit

[@AshleySpeaks09]

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@nickmatteo733]

Prayers for you and your family

[@americanliberal09]

This would've never happened if they didn't build the whole entire city into a bowl.

[@treeshbag1]

americanliberal09 you are right

[@TheLouisianan]

When the French first settled New Orleans, they established the city in what's now called the French Quarter because it's actually harder soil that's about 10' above sealevel and used it as a port for shipping up the river since rivers were the highways in the 16 and 1700s. Then the city started expanding by cutting down swamps and bogs and putting buildings there and that's why most of the current city is under water. It should've stayed in the original part of the city. Places like Metarie and Kenner are bad off because Bayou Gentilly and Bayou Metarie used to supply the surrounding soil with water. Peat shrinks like a sponge when the water supply is cut down.

[@johnallenlauridsenjr.3395]

@@TheLouisianan Harder soil? No. It's all the same. It's swampland. They built in the quarter because it was the highest ground.

[@TheLouisianan]

@@johnallenlauridsenjr.3395 harder is a subjective word. Of the marsh that was there, the quarter was the best place to build a port.

[@unassumingaccount395]

Meaning they shouldn't have continued building there once they knew New Orleans was gonna go get destroyed years before katrina.

[@Stender_]

All in all, where the city is located today, this was the WORST place to build New Orleans because it's located below sea level.

[@xkim9313]

And exactly at the 16th anniversary there’s another one coming 😓

[@angeliqueesprit8674]

@@xkim9313 I’m here in New Orleans now..

[@xkim9313]

@@angeliqueesprit8674 😳😳 when is it gonna hit?

[@xkim9313]

@@angeliqueesprit8674 be safe🙏🏽🙏🏽 I never experienced one because where I live they don’t come but it does sounds/looks scary

[@Stender_]

@@xkim9313 It’s just crazy how history repeats itself.

[@Layton_2010]

I used to get so aggravated when all I hear is “NOLA this NOLA that” when the subject of Katrina comes up. Over the years I got over it but I can at least say that both Louisiana and Mississippi were affected greatly by Katrina. However people who were not in MS during Katrina will never understand the frustration the media caused us when our MS coast cities all looked like they were nuked by a bomb and then when you talk to other people from other places about Katrina, people ask “Oh I thought the storm hit New Orleans?” -_- During Katrina in MS, I watched a tornado touchdown and wipe out an entire FAMILY, buildings collapsing, 9 hours of constant 120mph wind and roaring, and then after the storm, we lived outside for two weeks praying that it would rain cause of the heat and dehydration. That experience really messed with me physically and mentally. Yet, the levees break in NOLA and all of a sudden (me as a MS Katrina survivor) according to the media, I was no longer classified as a Katrina victim. Don’t get me wrong, what happened in NOLA was messed up! But let me just say this, Mississippi got brunt of the STORM, Louisiana’s main issue was the levees breaking -which was due to poor management and the priorities of the city. You can ask just about any Mississippi resident about what I just wrote and they will agree 100%.

[@DannyOvox3]

So basically yall didn't matter to them?

[@Layton_2010]

Daniel G. Yep. Pretty much lol.

[@hudsonmatz2123]

Sheesh, little late for a reply but I was wondering, 1800 deaths 638 in New Orleans they confirmed…..that’s half. Please due tell me more I’d love to hear your/families friends stories. You should be heard :)

[@Layton_2010]

@@hudsonmatz2123 Also, from what I can remember, Katrina was originally projected to make a direct impact in NOLA. Hours before making landfall, the storm took a strong right turn and the majority of the storm went up Mississippi. The entire state was impacted. And we were all under the impression that we would only get parts of it, but we were dead wrong. And at that point, it was way too late to pack up and evacuate.

[@blthetube1]

Add to that the climate effect on rising sea levels.... I want a piece of that real estate action.

[@CloudchaserShaconag]

I used to think that N'awlins was the only place that Katrina hit because so much of the news coverage focused on that city. I was surprised to learn that Katrina hit other areas as well.

[@eliwyatt4605]

CloudchaserShaconag Mississippi had it worse

[@_wet_toes_4267]

@@eliwyatt4605 really??? ill watch it now

[@IceESole]

Katrina come through South Florida..damaged here and there...as it crossed over the west coast of Florida and went into the Gulf of Mexico it was a category 4...it was horrible

[@stevenalexander4721]

Katrina never hit New Orleans, it passed right by it, look at the weather maps for the path Katrina took and you will see this.

[@torigodbey383]

Katrina did NOT cause the massive flooding. It is 100% the Army Corp of Engineers.

[@Gobuckeyes0721]

As ida bears down on same evil day so many happy they relocated

[@erickallheart51]

i remember being there , what a tragic event ;c

[@DanMabe]

NYC should be worrying now about increasing sea waters.

[@realtalkroscoeg]

Oh boy, here we go again

[@natanmandala]

Does anybody know what type of tapping drum or instrument this is at 2:11...SBN RESONATE

[@gwmadrigal]

a tongue drum can make that kind of sound

[@redmobjmojk2723]

I from New Orleans Im never move moving back

[@4krome449]

Bobby Hill I love ur tv show

[@ashleybell8183]

@ALF RAYDOUGH new orleans is beutiful bc im from there so if you dont like it dont say anything about it

[@LoranaCoy]

​@@ashleybell8183sweetie they are also from New Orleans. They have every. Right. To talk about it.

[@untiedbowties]

Now i wonder why Natgeo doesn't get much views..... btw...First....to comment first

[@saerudayo]

this along with animal and weather videos is why i subscribed to nationalgeographic

[@Crazyybm-m4y]

Stay strong and be safe

[@speedfreakpsycho]

we have floods like this here on Thailand every 2-3 years!

[@NOUHRASHDAN]

That’s crazy it’s catastrophically insane

[@hurricanekatrina6588]

Is stupid build a city underwater... In a hurricane zone!

[@mr12aT]

americans right? lol

[@sabsters2020]

Mint Mastering it was founded by the French so I don’t wtf your saying lol

[@mr12aT]

Sabareesh Sudhagar. Yes, it was. Though New Orleans has been American for 300 years LOL

[@neonflashsparkotron5435]

Well long ago people didnt know it was below sea level I guess

[@alexwhite3158]

Yeah 200-300 years ago they knew very little of sea level geographically around that area, also had little knowledge of STORM surge from hurricanes as well as global warming. If you are in New Orleans and never knew this you wouldn't look around and first thought be "we may be below sea level" you would OF been laughed at and told" IF that were true where is the water"? It wasn't until Mabry 30-40 years ago they understood what danger the city was in.

[@tejasnite]

Yea I'd say building houses below sea level and the largest river basin flood zone in the US Iwould say that's man made alright if your going to builds below sea level and in a flood zone better have houses able to rise up and float when the flood waters start coming in

[@06livefast]

I'm sorry Isaac, I'll give you the mic back.. Katrina was one of the best hurricanes of all time!

[@stevemcmanus4527]

I so sorry for 2005 instead of us saying 2005 we say the hurricane killer year lol

[@lilvert6072]

I mean natural disasters such as floods and hurricanes have been a problem since the city's settlement, another problem is poverty, the city has a high crime rate and poverty rate. People can't afford cars to ride out the storm. The city relys on the people to find a way out during a hurricane.

[@nicelol5241]

that’s one of the issues, the city is unlivable in many ways, you can’t escape a flooding without a car, that’s sad

[@maximeb6662]

Anyone remember the apocalypse survival/competition show?

[@BreezyTaughtMeWell]

idk why ya'll take about hurricanes like the more damage they make the better. Try being the one whos affected by it.

[@cdelane3335]

These wetlands also help slow the hurricanes I watched a documentary on this the other day

[@lilvert6072]

Oysters can do the same too, but the rising sea levels make them useless. A foot of an oyster wall can slow down a storm surge by a little and calm it. But it's useless.

[@nrobinson7026]

im watching this while hurricaine francine is happening rn-

[@stevenalexander4721]

New Orleans was not hit by Katrina. Katrina passed right by New Orleans and hit the Mississippi coast destroying everything in it's path.

[@moneygamo9720]

@Jayla cute

[@stevenalexander4721]

@Jayla You need to learn to read a map it was not.

[@lilvert6072]

It didn't hit it directly, but since it went into Lake Pontchartrain it destroyed the funnel levee and flooded everything.

[@Tony-h3y]

People forgot about Mississippi duribg katrina.

[@jhaeck1]

really shouldnt even build there where it flooded

[@johnfrew2798]

They knew it was going to happen

[@v3e_]

How so 🤔

[@kamilleroberts960]

I was having a hard time picking a video for my project 😔

[@carinaschiaffi3247]

Same

[@michaelhuynh8793]

Kamille Roberts Me too

[@junebug8882]

2021.. 😷

[@Gangularis]

The dutch don't get massive seasonal hurricanes. Bad analogy.

[@Fredricjakobsen]

Vist noen starter rivnings firma med gravemarskin er ja da må det da vere mye jobb for rivnings firmaer er alt ryddet opp?

[@Fredricjakobsen]

Vist denne byen synker ja va skjer da med vann og kloakk rør?

[@tamekkaknuth9612]

would love to go to New Orleans. especially go to Mardi Gras at least 1x

[@Lordidude]

It's a loud and obnoxious nightmare

[@vertualsurfing]

It's 'BELOW SEA LEVEL'!!!.. I never thought it was a great idea to build a great city (on the coast) below sea-level.. But even more perplexing to me..is that I just found out my adult children have planned a vacation there (In AUGUST), while I'm scheduled for major surgery!?!.. Strange Days...

[@hunter-ws8sx]

How was the surgery?

[@selflove6026]

Irony is. Another huge hurricane ida is hitting lousiana in August in 2021.

[@nicholestroup1770]

Interesting I never knew this

[@Fredricjakobsen]

Har di betalt forsikring på deres hus ja da må også forsikringsselskaper utbetale penger også?

[@rolandochavez8591]

Why not build massive catch basins or canels that run tru the city and only fill during a hurricane or levee break

[@jaquivocalcord6604]

Why did this happen

[@Mr.ZOPLAD_]

in 2024 we now have floods in Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil...

[@ig7157]

And almost 7 years later nothing has really changed.

[@annbush1826]

Three things have changed: 1) The New Orleans Levee Board has been replaced by the Southeast Flood Protection Authority. 2) Mayor Nagin, who rejected the Amtrak relief train, is no longer with us. 3) Governor Blanco, who set up a New Orleans Hurricane Relief Foundation with herself, her husband and her lawyer, Robert Perrot, as the board, is no longer with us. The Foundation is still listed in Newport Beach, Ca.

[@ig7157]

@@annbush1826 Wow, thank you for responding to my comment from so long ago. I don't really hold that belief any more. Yet I did not know about those attempts to make change. I am going to read up on them!

[@nicholas.alan85]

That’s awesome to see a reply like that almost ten years later. :)

[@JessicaGarcia-xf9wr]

@@nicholas.alan85 seeing an ancient comment come back to life is a rare sight to witness! Don’t see that too often!

[@cephasngara6665]

@@JessicaGarcia-xf9wr I'm currently watching Five Days At Memorial a tv show based on the events that took place during hurricane katrina, messed up my mind a bit

[@julplwgolden2620]

Oh my God .!!!!!!

[@sarahscaruffi6608]

😮😢

[@LittleSlim78]

HURRICANE KATRINA WAS SO SO DARN DEADLY FOR SURE.

[@HeyGirl4]

There's a little bit of everything wrong with New Orleans...true the land is not good it's built on, true the Marsh protection is disappearing, And the levies don't help when they a built badly, Pumping stations are bad also.. been like this as long as I can remember, and that's a long time!

[@elaineblanchard4775]

It as still a goldfish bowl 😮😢

[@kingMT514]

If New Orleans was built a little more upriver, would flooding be not as bad?

[@ItzHagann]

I live in Louisiana...

[@Fredricjakobsen]

Må jo bere mye jobb med og rive gamle bygg?

[@Fredricjakobsen]

Står det bare helt forlatte ommeråder med masse hus dom ikke engang er rivd?

[@TheBobbiK]

IMA LET YOU FINISH IMA LET YOU FINISH

[@charlesferdinand422]

Bush should've used the troops he sent to Iraq for no reason to New Orleans.

[@mr12aT]

The slow response was deliberate​.

[@ogylang]

I cannot watch😭😭😭

[@ogylang]

Yup

[@wargraymon2006]

Most of these comments are either stupid or just from people who didn't watch the video at all.

[@Fredricjakobsen]

Va med alle Di tomme bygningene er Di revet?

[@okjeffy6581]

This is sad honestly

[@redmobjmojk2723]

They don't have nothing in New Orleans no more

[@seanlewis1148]

Redmobj Mojk They don't have *anything in New Orleans *anymore.

[@Stender_]

You'd think?

[@Tony-h3y]

Dont forget about Mississippi since Katrina its the poorest state in the US.

[@edvenuto9614]

Looters people knowing there not much help die. The storm was the worst in a long time. The water before the storm flooded. The hurricane caused a noas ark end of days

[@maggiebugden9463]

Psalms 55:8 I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.

[@tejasnite]

The people who run national geo are smarter than all of us so limit your comments they been around before I was born in 1959 or some time there of

[@justinkurttoboso2957]

0:16

[@badkid_zaya3312]

my house was under water and my ppl was on top

[@Fredricjakobsen]

Har di åverlevde mensker forr utbetalt forsikringspenger?

[@smashypeople]

EVERY HOUR?

[@leiag201]

it's gonna happen this year, dont believe me?, just watch

[@redmobjmojk2723]

Every Time Parade season start somebody always getting kill

[@NB-wc1pn]

what do that have to do with the topic at hand..Stay focus..

[@DimachkaS]

The Dutch found a way to combat the sea. Why are Americans scratching their bums?

[@BarbieGAshley]

Yea well lawd I thankyou.

[@warr3nl33izzel5]

Not even a 10 meter wall around the city wil help it.. it wil make it worse

[@rdeshane8041]

🙄😾😳 🎶Thought you'd take a swing, try another girl try another knight...🎶 Little Big Town.

[@timkat649]

THE PEOPLE CAME TO HOUSTON,TEXAS FROM NEW ORLEANS THEY NEVER LEFT AND THE CRIME DOUBLED🐀💀

[@RobSoRandom]

tim kat just like Atlanta

[@_wet_toes_4267]

lmaooo i mean we do be reakin havoc doeeeee

[@srijanpandey737]

Well Harvey Destroyed you too :)

[@ncavlleguy]

What a nightmare ILL KEEP MY BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS !

[@AlonsoRules]

The Native Americans said to the French to not build a city there, it floods. Turns out they were right all along. New Orleans is Atlantis in real life.

[@PC-lu3zf]

Don’t live there my advice

[@tomr8914]

You should see the impacts... photosfromkatrina . com (sorry, this post doesn't allow links, so I had to split it like that)

[@paradevy]

Hurricane Ida

[@debbie5744]

I live in new orleans but i did not know about this i was not born yet i your wondering how old i am im 8

[@TrainsWithDynamo]

and youtube is meant for 13+

[@notcroze8736]

2021

[@redmobjmojk2723]

Ever since Soulja Slim got killed New Orleans and never been the same

[@allyzapunsalan8419]

OH NO!! TIANA IS IN TROUBLE IN THE PRINCESS IN THE FROG SHE HAS DIED D;

[@turysta2575]

+Allyza Punsalan Tiana may have been dead since the Princess and the Frog was set in the 1920's. She would have been in her late 90's at the time of Katrina, if she was even still alive. Ah! look at me getting technical. xD

[@lilybroussard7807]

princess and the frog was based off of lea chase, and she is still alive, although she is in her nineties

[@redmobjmojk2723]

They don't have jobs in New Orleans that why the crime is so bad

[@patrickmercer978]

Goyette Trace

[@johnfrew2798]

I live with Earth quake's that's all and we know it is going to happen

[@lauracunningham8093]

Our goverment knew this could happen Long before katrina

[@Fredricjakobsen]

Hvemm rydder opp eter slike vann katastrofer?

[@pepeisugly959]

I live in n.o I glad I was not born in 2005

[@doctorserpiente1991]

Aliens

[@johnfrew2798]

Be a preper