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BOONE, N.C., Feb. 8, 2017 —At least seven tornadoes tore across eastern Louisiana on Tuesday, leading Governor John Bel Edwards to declare a state of emergency. The twisters caused extensive destruction throughout the state and damaged hundreds of homes...

James Hennessy, a Red Cross mental health volunteer from Tallahassee, Florida, takes a photo of Old Jefferson Highway which he was hoping to cross to reach Baton Rouge in Prairieville, La., Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2016. This month’s epic flooding in Louisiana...

For me, the road to This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate begins in a very specific time and place. The time was exactly ten years ago. The place was New Orleans, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The road in question was flooded and...

Katrina Remembered Again at Ten by C. L. Cook - Gorilla-Radio.com Aug. 28., 2015 It seems impossible ten years have passed since the storm that sank New Orleans. Everything seemed impossible then; the casual neglect of the warning signs, and failure...

September 29 In History 480 BCE : The Greeks defeat the Persian fleet of Xerxes I at the Battle of Salamis.  At this time Judah and Jerusalem were part of the Persian Empire .  Xerxes reigned from 483 BCE to 465 BCE which meant that he was a contemporary...