The last part of the Hurricane Katrina Survivors’ documentary series is presented today at National Geographic.
Hurricane Katrina’s victims were flown to safety around the country. National Geographic
From the new documentary series Hurricane Katrina’s Survivors See you on the Fifth and Last episode on National Geographic today. It goes through Saturday, September 3, 2005. At that time, the flood caused by a devastating hurricane continued for six days.
Thousands of people had been transferred to the SuperDome Sports Stadium, where they had been fenced for days without working toilets and air conditioning. On Saturday, buses came to get people out of town for evacuation.
Part of the journey continued on bus rides, others were loaded on aircraft. No one was told where they were being taken.
– At the airport, we were faced with armed national guards who told me to get on the plane. We ordered that we could go to our sister. He lived about an hour’s drive away. But we were forced to get on the plane. We couldn’t do anything else. They had weapons, Alice Craft-Kerney remembers.
– We asked where the machine would land. “We don’t know.” Don’t they have a flight plan? They just told me to get on the plane.
As a result of the hurricane, over one million people had to leave the Gulf of Mexico. Some were taken to Texas, some to Tennessee, some else around the United States.
Up to one million US people had to flee from their home area. National Geographic
The water withdrew from New Orleans a month later. Many returned to look at their destroyed homes and before their beautiful city. The houses were full of mold and mud, the valuables ruined. The burial coffins had risen to the surface of the earth from damp soil.
– We had recently buried my cousin. His coffin was visible, Shelton Alexander remembers.
The residents of New Orleans wanted to build their homes back. However, the city had other plans. The residential plots were wanted to build green areas. The grant funds for reconstruction, in turn, were unevenly distributed, and in particular, the poor population had to suffer further.
– The horrors that had experienced after Katrina should not have happened. There is no reason for me to justify why Hurricane Katrina changed from a disaster to tragedy, working for her community Malik Rahim says at the end of the series.
Hurricane Katrina’s survivors today at National Geographic at 7pm & Disney+. See all TV shows and broadcast times on the Telku TV guide.