Hurricane Katrina made landfall as a Category 3 storm in Plaquemines Parish at 6:10 in the morning on this date. Saint Bernard Parish had widespread flooding and devastation, and current Parish President Louis Pomes (Louie POE-mez) was an employee of the parish at the time.
It was chaos in New Orleans in the days after Katrina. Lieutenant General Russell Honoré was the face of the federal response and says he would have liked to have been in New Orleans earlier, but the city had flooded so badly that he and other members of the National Guard had no way of getting into the city – and, in effect, they had no way of getting people out.
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It’s reported the U-S Coastal Guard saved over 17-thousand people from flooded areas in the greater New Orleans area.
Gas prices for this Labor Day weekend are the lowest they’ve been since 2020. Andre Champagne has the story.
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For the first time since November 5, 2022, Northwestern State won a football game last night. The Demons ended their 20-game losing streak by beating Alcorn State 20 to 10. ULM shutout St. Francis 29 to 0. And the ninth ranked LSU Tigers leave today for their big matchup against fourth ranked Clemson tomorrow night.