a katrina biography

A KATRINA BIOGRAPHYAnatomy of a Mega Disaster

THE CONTRAFLOW PROJECT

M. Darryl Woods, Lead Researcher

www.thecontraflow.org

The Researcher

M. Darryl Woods INDEPENDENT:

• Geographer

• Researcher

• Journalist

• Archivist

• Author

• Publisher

• Filmmaker

The Response (in real time)

• Dodged a bullet

• Levees overtopped or breached?

• Looping Looting

• Superdome

• Convention Center

• General Honore

• Astrodome

The Relief

• Leaving Las Vegas

• Dallas Reunion Arena Mission

• Last Post-Storm Evacuation Flight to Omaha

• The “Soul Patrol”

• U. of Iowa

The Resettlement

• Ground Zero

• Camp Epiphany

• Camp Bullet’s

• Camp Mama D

• Common Ground

• Congressional Hearings

• Merry Christmas ‘05

The Repopulation

• Disaster Tourism

• City Hall

• MLK Day ‘06

• Second Line

• Mardi Gras ‘06

• St. Augustine Catholic Church Protest

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The Research

• Search Engines

• Delta Airlines VPs

• DMATs

The Recovery

• 1st Anniversary

• Team Contraflow

• Plaquemines Parish

• FEMA Trailers

The Re-evaluation

• FEMA

• Helinet Aviation

• DHS

• DOT

• DOD

• USFWS

• Instate/Neighboring States Response

The Response (in reality)

Day 0: Sun, 8.28.05

Day 1: Mon, 8.29.05

Day 2: Tue, 8.30.05

Day 3: Wed, 8.31.05

Day 4: Thu, 9.1.05

Day 5: Fri, 9.2.05

Day 6: Sat, 9.3.05

Day 7: Sun, 9.4.05

The Repercussions

The Respect

M.D. Woods & the Soul Patrol ‘10

The Rewrite

• ’10: IT/Social Media

• ’11: NOPD, JPSO, Gen. Honore, Bill Waldron

• ’12: Convention Center, Hurricane Isaac

• ’13: Superdome, LANG, Ray Nagin

• ’14: The Epiphany

• ’15: 10-yr Anniversary

The Rest of the Story

• CONTRAFLOW: Six Degrees of Separation Following Hurricane Katrina, Greater New Orleans Flood and the Second Evacuation ‘09

• CONTRAFLOW: A Katrina Heptalogy ’15

• From a single book project to a seven-book series