St. Bernard Parish was deemed 100% uninhabitable

On August 29, 2005,  Hurricane Katrina struck the New Orleans area, leaving massive, almost indescribable, destruction in her wake. Eighty percent of New Orleans was under water; nearby St. Bernard Parish was deemed 100% uninhabitable.

Ten years later, an estimated 6,000 families who owned homes before Hurricane Katrina still do not have the funds or resources necessary to rebuild.
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“This president has been spectacular in his partnership with me and the rest of the people of New Orleans in rebuilding this great American city,” Mayor Mitch Landrieu said in an interview this week. “From the day he stepped into office, this president has been all in.”
The education secretary, Arne Duncan, called Hurricane Katrina “the best thing that happened to the education system in New Orleans,” a provocative remark that many say proved accurate.

"What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas," Barbara Bush said in an interview on Monday with the radio program "Marketplace." "Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality."

"And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway," she said, "so this is working very well for them."