Rising from Katrina : How My Mississippi Hometown Lost It All and Found What Mattered

by Koch, Kathleen

• ISBN13: 9780895873842
• ISBN10: 0895873842
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-08-01
• Publisher: Blair

Summary

The 2005 Hurricane Season was the most devastating in history. People from the Bahamas to Mexico to Louisiana, Mississippi, and Florida suffered a record fifteen hurricanes, four of which reached Category 5 strength.

Author Biography

Kathleen Koch is an award-winning broadcast journalist and former longtime CNN correspondent based in Washington, D.C. She shared in the Peabody Award CNN won for its coverage of Hurricane Katrina.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Prologue Moving In	p. 3
The Assignment	p. 13
Getting Ready	p. 19
The Storm	p. 28
The Aftermath	p. 42
Return to the Bay	p. 82
Final Search	p. 101
Bodies and Beds	p. 112
Faith to Go On	p. 130
Wake-up Call	p. 155
Fall Rituals	p. 167
Thanksgiving	p. 181
Holidays	p. 197
Disaster Tours	p. 206
Mardi gras	p. 221
Hurricane Season	p. 237
One-year Anniversary	p. 252
Fall 2006	p. 265
winter of Discontent	p. 275
Second Anniversary	p. 288
Third Anniversary	p. 305
Fourth Anniversary and Beyond	p. 315
Author's Note	p. 345
Acknowledgments	p. 346
Index	p. 347
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