NEW ORLEANS -- Late on Aug. 27, less than 36 hours before Hurricane Katrina crashed into the Gulf Coast, New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin's home phone rang. It was Max Mayfield, director of the National Hurricane Center in Florida.
(9/11/05)
WASHINGTON -- President Bush, under fire about whether he acted aggressively to help tens of thousands of desperate people left homeless, destitute, and starving by Hurricane Katrina, promised yesterday that he would lead an investigation into ''what went wrong" with the government's response and will dispatch Vice President Dick Cheney to ''assess our recovery efforts" in the region.
(9/7/05)
INTERACTIVE: Hurricane Katrina's impact
AUDIO SLIDESHOW: The scene in Louisiana after Katrina
AUDIO SLIDESHOW: The scene in Houston outside the Astrodome
Before and after satellite images
The chaos wrought 1,300 miles away by Hurricane Katrina has been a wake-up call to those who oversee responses to emergencies in local cities and towns.
(9/8/05)
Steve Levine may be just an average guy from Shrewsbury. But next week he'll be responsible for a convoy of trucks headed South carrying baby formula and clothing for victims of Hurricane Katrina.
(9/8/05)
MAP: New Orleans flood superimposed on Eastern Mass.
MAP: New Orleans compared to Boston
AUDIO SLIDESHOW: Katrina evacuees settle in at Camp Edwards
