Is New Orleans still affected in some way by Hurricane Katrina? How so?

Large parts of the city and suburbs are back to normal.  Most of the downtown areas have recovered.  Businesses came back for the most part.  A few changes, a few things stayed the same.  We are now talking almost 15 years ago so most of what is going to happen has had plenty of chances to have happened.

My wife and I had enough homeowner's insurance to rebuild the bottom half of the house that got flooded.  We were lucky because in our area, water was only about 2 feet deep.  Still did a lot of damage, don't get me wrong, but I have friends who had water 8-10 feed deep and one lady I know watched her house float down the street from the 2nd floor of her daughter's (flooded) house.  So we had a chance to rebuild and it wasn't totally daunting.

But there are parts that have not recovered.  Most of those bad-off parts are in the area where poverty has prevented people from having enough money to rebuild.  They were under-insured and many were not good money managers with the FEMA loans.  The area we call the lower 9th Ward was worst about this.

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How so? Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans.

YES.

For those that lived through it they carry memories of many horrible images.

Some parts of the city were not flooded.

Some parts still have either vacant land or vacant homes that the landowners have not repaired.

Like in the past it still has many political issues.amongst the various different stake holders.

The main tourist area is in good recovery most of it was in the older parts of the city which were built on the high ground. The stuff built in the 20'th century had more damage than stuff from the 18'th 19'th century.

Obviously those that had insurance recovered better than those that lost everything they owned.

Property owners have city land situated below the mean river level.

Pumps and barriers have previously failed. Residents fear that the

Gulf Water may drown the city anew in a storm surge higher than

present standing defenses. Drowned housing requires expensive

repairs to house people within again without public health concerns.

Common sense rules. Not those who made them before Katrina.

My county is still hosting those who fled. That's common sense.

Yes... I don't know if you heard or remembered, but there was even debate as to whether or not they should rebuild New OrIeans at all back then because the devastation was just so bad. A lot of people have been homeless since Katrina or are still living in 'temporary' homes. Problems with household mold have gone up exponentially after Katrina. It had a psychologicaI effect on all the residents to see $100 billion worth of damages and 1800 of their community members dead. If you look at New Orlean's population from 2005 to 2006, more than half of their population left in less than a year, hundreds of thousands of people. The population has not recovered since. Aside from the actual hurricane damage, as you can imagine, the loss of population led to a decrease in industry, jobs, safety, housing, etc. Many companies that had to rebuild anyway, decided to just up and move somewhere else to avoid flood-prone New Orleans. The sea levees holding back water from New Orleans broke during the hurricane, and even the new ones cannot withstand a Category 5 hurricane. This deters any future investment in New Orleans. The only thing even keeping New Orleans going is tourism.

Plenty homes still haven’t rebuilt. No insurance, poor money management and families failing to have wills blocked plenty of work. Illegitimate children getting shares of family homes and preventing work to be completed. Not a New Orleans issue. It’s a people issue. Plenty companies never came back.

Bigger issues are drugs, violence and infrastructure. We flood with heavy rains because of civil servants working in the sewage and water board. Don’t get me started on politics here either.

You would never forget being on a rooftop for days with no water and the hot sun beaming on your face with your mother in a wheelchair slipping into the water drowning, or the stench of dead bodies being pilled up in the super dome, and watching dead bodies floating past you.