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Days after Hurricane Katrina the PMAC served as a triage center for refugees. As more people crowded campus LSU athletes and coaches stepped up to the place to help the campus and state heal. 

All Hands on Deck: LSU athletes, coaches bring campus together in the wake of Hurricane Katrina

August 30, 2015

Chinook and Black Hawk helicopters flew overhead, rocking the Athletic Administration Building and kicking up dirt in the Bernie Moore Track Stadium as it became a makeshift helipad. A fire truck was parked...

Despite losing everything in Hurricane Katrina, LSU alumna Tamika Jett now proudly owns and runs a successful dance studio called Passion Dance Center, located in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Legacy established: LSU alumna thrives with her own dance studio post-Katrina

By Kayla Randall - The Daily Reveille August 30, 2015

“Rebirth” is a word synonymous with New Orleans. It’s a word that’s also synonymous with the life of LSU alumna and Passion Dance Center CEO Tamika Jett. A year before Hurricane...

Local filmmaker and University screenwriter-in-residence Zack Godshall works on the set of his movie “Low and Behold.”

LSU assistant professor reflects on his Hurricane Katrina inspired film

By Riley Katz - The Daily Reveille August 30, 2015

LSU assistant professor of screenwriting Zack Godshall’s movie, “Low and Behold,” portrays the human aspects of a natural disaster. “Low and Behold,” filmed in 2006, monthsa...

Music venues across New Orleans experience recovery, reopening after Katrina

Music venues reflect about renovations, revival after Hurricane Katrina

By Grayson Senner - The Daily Reveille August 30, 2015

Hurricane Katrina slammed into New Orleans in late August 2005 devastating vital aspects of its neighborhoods. Music venues were no exception. As residents returned, the local venues picked up the pieces...

Vincent Cellucci was heavily impacted by Hurricane Katrina, thus influencing him to write "An Easy Place / To Die," on Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2015, at LSU.

New Orleans poet finds inspiration from Hurricane Katrina

By Sarah LeBoeuf - The Daily Reveille August 30, 2015

Artist, writer, chef, teacher and LSU Communication across the Curriculum studio coordinator Vincent Cellucci is a man of many talents, each of them affected by Hurricane Katrina. His poetry, though, proves...

A view of the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway from Air Force One, carrying President Barack Obama, before landing at Louis Armstrong International Airport in New Orleans, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2015, for the 10th anniversary since the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

As storm devastates New Orleans, campus becomes community

By Carrie Grace Henderson August 30, 2015

On Saturday, Aug. 27, 2005 — two days before Hurricane Katrina made landfall — LSU anounced classes would be canceled Monday. Then-LSU Chancellor Sean O’Keefe, LSUPD, student affairs...

Debris lies in the street on an abandoned block in a residential section of New Orleans East, Thursday, Aug. 6, 2015. A decade ago, polluted water up to 20 feet deep flooded 80 percent of the city. Katrina killed more than 1,500 people in Louisiana, many of them drowning inside their homes, and hundreds more simply disappeared, the National Hurricane Center reported a year later. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Emergency management centers born out of tragedy

By Kaci Cazenave August 30, 2015

When Hurricane Katrina stormed through South Louisiana 10 years ago, LSU administration was unprepared for the Category 3 afflictions they would suffer both during and post-devastation. Former assistant...

LSU gymnastics head coach D-D Breaux cheers for her team Saturday, April 19, 2014 during the second rotation of the NCAA Super Six Finals in Birmingham, Ala.

LSU Gymnastics team helps campus recover in wake of Hurricane Katrina

By Jacob Hamilton - The Daily Reveille August 30, 2015

For more than 24 hours, LSU gymnasts rode out Hurricane Katrina together in the safety of West Campus Apartments, 107 miles west of the eye of the storm. Half the team had no idea what was heading its...

Davis Katrina post storm

Avery Davis: Understanding the storm came later

August 30, 2015

The fourth grade of Ursuline Academy in New Orleans sat, hands raised, in religion class on Friday, August 27th. Each of us said a quick intention before the beginning of class. “I pray that the...

The Gulf Coast of Grand Isle and nearby marshes face threats of coastal erosion. [Above] Grand Isle is the state's only inhabited barrier island.

Coastal erosion is killing Louisiana

By Cody Sibley August 30, 2015

If we want to prevent another Hurricane Katrina, we need to talk about coastal erosion. If you’re from Louisiana, you probably know our levee system is killing our state’s ecosystem. If you...

A mural of Hurricane Katrina and Martin Luther King Jr. covers the walls of an abandoned building on Thomas Delpit Drive in Old South Baton Rouge.

Natural disasters can create opportunities for economically disadvantaged

By Justin DiCharia August 30, 2015

North of LSU sits dilapidated shotgun houses, broken down vehicles, a lack of grocery stores and an environment unfriendly to those wishing to rise above it. The scene is similar to the Lower 9th Ward...

In this aerial photo made during a flight provided by the National Wildlife Federation and Southern Wings, a shrimp boat travels behind a rock dam built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers after Hurricane Katrina, in the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet (MRGO) in St. Bernard Parish, La., Monday, Aug. 10, 2015. The MRGO, originally built by the Corps, carried a storm surge from Katrina straight into the New Orleans area causing devastating flooding in the Parish. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Still Stuck in the Past

By Clarke Perkins August 30, 2015

I feel sorry for anyone with the name Katrina. There’s a chance you will lose friends before you even make them. Ten years later and we’re still putting up a strong fight against the aftermath...