Clark High School is in New Orleans’ BW Cooper neighborhood, on the edge of the flooding and a few blocks from the Superdome. Before it re-opened in April 2006, the Federal Emergency Management Agency made Clark throw away all of its library books, which were contaminated with mold. In mid-October, the new books […]

It takes a lot of computer power to predict where an ocean storm will hit, how high the storm surge will be, and the damage that will ensue. The process starts when meteorologists collect thousands of data points from buoys, satellites, ships, and other sources. The data describe surface water temperature, winds, relative humidity, […]

Um… “Graphic Novel,” sorry.  Poet Deborah Grison responded to the crisis in New Orleans by writing “No Ark,” the story of a man who decided to ride out the storm and ended up trapped on his roof for days, nearing death.  She brought the poem to artists Damian Duffy and John Jennings, who added pictures […]

“You can’t conceive of how big it is until you see it,” said Daryl Williams, director of the Minority Entrepreneurshp Program at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. “As bad as New Orleans was, Mississippi was worse. I drove 75 miles and everything was literally flattened. When I got back to the office, I […]