How sports have helped New Orleans heal in decade since Hurricane Katrina - SI.com
Ten years have passed since the wind blew and the waters rose in New Orleans. Ten years since a nation watched as a great and beloved city was battered by the random cruelty of nature and the inexcusable incompetence of government. 29, 2005, submerging much of New Orleans in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Pontchartrain. Drew Brees was 1,600 miles away, participating in his fifth training camp with the Chargers, his third as the starting quarterback for the franchise that drafted him in 2001. He watched on television like so many others, unaware that one day... Doug Thornton, a former quarterback at McNeese State who had lived in New Orleans since 1984, was at the Superdome, where he was the building’s chief executive as a regional vice president for the management company SMG. • VAULT: Fate of Saints takes backseat to scenes of despair in New Orleans. Reese had spent 53 of his 60 years in New Orleans and had lived through Hurricane Camille in 1969. . Very few U. S. cities have faced in modern times what New Orleans faced in that late summer of 2005 and in the decade since. New York City in 2001, certainly. New Orleans continues to slowly recover, a smaller city and a different city. Source: www.si.com
