Roughly 1,600 residents of Louisiana lost their lives and 134, 000 homes were damaged or destroyed. There was an estimated of 135 million in damage, making it the worst natural disaster in U.S history.
The Presbytere museum located in New Orleans has an exhibit called Living With Hurricanes: Katrina and Beyond. in this exhibit you see and hear videos and stories of those who survived the storm.
As you walk into the museum you will see clear glass bottles hanging from the ceiling, representing the number of lives lost in the storm. Blue glass hands represent the volunteers who came to the city.
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| Glass bottles & blue hands. |
This piano belongs to rhythm-and-blues great Fats
Domino. The piano was heavily
damaged when his home in New
Orleans was flooded by the storm. It's displayed when you first walk into the Presbytere.
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| This is a garage door written with what appears to be red spray paint. It is a representation of what one family has lost. |
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| The remains of a teddy bear found after the storm. |
The teddy bear shown above is a representation of personal belongings that families have lost because of the storm. Many people lost not only their homes but their personal items along with it. Items such as photographs and family heirlooms that are irreplaceable were lost or damaged.
Abigail Hamilton
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| MREs that were given out by government agencies and civilians as people were rescued from the storm |
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| Canned water that was given out by the American Red Cross because New Orleans drinking water was not safe |
Work Cited
| “Artifacts, survivor stories power New Orleans exhibit on Hurricane Katrina.” Dallas News, 20 Nov. 2010, www.dallasnews.com/life/travel/2010/11/20/artifacts-survivor-stories-power-new-orleans-exhibit-on-hurricane-katrina. | |
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