Growing up in New Orleans' historic 9th Ward, Mia Adams heard stories about how Hurricane Betsy devastated the neighborhood in 1965. Adams, now staying in Georgia, is trying to reach members of ...

Elaine Picot, a resident of the Lower 9th Ward for the past 10 years, stares in disbelief of the massive damage to her neighborhood. "I'm gone, I'm through," said Picot of her time in New Orleans.

Flooding in the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans after Hurricane Betsy. (NOAA Image) Tragically, Hurricane Betsy claimed the lives of 76 people and left hundreds injured, making it one of the ...

New Orleans’ 9th Ward is marked by disaster and resiliency. ... The area was devastated by a hurricane in 1915 and Hurricane Betsy in 1965 before Hurricane Katrina.

Only once, before he lived there, had the Lower Ninth Ward flooded. That was for Hurricane Betsy in September 1965, when, according to locals like Green, a 10-foot hole was purposely blown in the ...

Facing demolition, some question whether New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward should rise again. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.

I never dreamed that it was going to take this long because I was here in 1965 for Betsy,” said Henry L. Irvin Sr., who lives in the Lower Ninth Ward.“People back here are humans as well and ...

Hurricane Betsy, which until 2005 was the nastiest storm to menace New Orleans in the city's modern history, ... New Orleans East, the Lower 9th Ward and parts of the Upper 9th Ward. ...

We walked a lot in the Ninth Ward. We had no choice. Most of the people in our New Orleans neighborhood had no cars; and those who had them, with the notable exceptions of the Elam and Shelton ...

NEW ORLEANS - It sounds eerily familiar: levee breaches during a hurricane that sent water pouring into the Lower Ninth Ward, parts of Gentilly, St. Bernard Parish and eastern New Orleans. Only ...

To commemorate the 20th anniversary of StoryCorps, we revisit a mother's conversation with her son, who decided to open the only grocery store in New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward after Hurricane Katrina.