|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
| |
By Category |
 |
|
|
| |
|
| |
| |
India On Media |
|
|
|
| |
|
| |
|
|
| Others
News |
|
| Bush marks two years from Katrina |
| US President George W Bush has praised the people of Louisiana and Mississippi, two years after the states were devastated by Hurricane Katrina.
|
| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 30-August-2007
2:23:21 AM |
| Better days are ahead," the president told an audience at a New Orleans school flooded in 2005, before heading to Bay St Louis, Mississippi.
In the wake of the storm Mr Bush vowed to "do what it takes" to rebuild the city, but he has since faced criticism.
Katrina killed 1,600 people in the states of Louisiana and Mississippi.
The storm made landfall as a strong Category Three hurricane at 0610 on 29 August 2005 and flooded some 80% of the city after levees broke under the pressure of the storm.
Spirit
In New Orleans, Mr Bush observed a moment of silence at the Dr Martin Luther King Charter School for Math and Science, the first school to reopen in New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward, one of the areas most affected by the flooding.
Hurricane Katrina broke the levees, it broke a lot of hearts, it destroyed buildings, but it didn't affect the spirit of this community," he said in a speech after the ceremony.
Mr Bush listed federal government moves to get the ravaged city back on its feet, including the $114bn (£57bn) allocated for the relief and rebuilding efforts.
He spoke of plans to redesign the city's levee system to provide "100-year flood defences" by 2012, adding: "New Orleans cannot rebuild until there is confidence in the levees."
There are plans to regenerate wetlands along the Mississippi delta which can help reduce the impact of future storms, the president said, and to install a $1.3bn drainage system in New Orleans.
Elsewhere, city Mayor Ray Nagin marked the moment the levees broke at a bell-ringing ceremony.
At the city's Charity Hospital a groundbreaking ceremony was held for a victims' memorial and a mausoleum to house the remains of more than 100 unidentified victims.
A candlelit vigil was due to be held in Jackson Square at dusk.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ADVERTISEMENTS
Free offer!!! Become an administrator for your zip home page, "Post" local news (local to your postcode)& pictures, "Post" advertisement banners from local companies. Make Extra money.
|
 |
 |
|
|
| |
|
