Hurricane Katrina | Code Gray | 1
Against The Odds
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🗓️ 13 June 2019
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
It’s late August 2005, and the city of New Orleans makes preparations for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina. But after decades of hurricanes missing the city, many residents are confident they can ride out the storm. By the time Mayor Ray Nagin orders the first mandatory evacuation in New Orleans history, it’s too late for some to leave.
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| 0:00.0 | A listener note, |
| 0:01.4 | against the odds uses dramatizations that are based on true events. |
| 0:05.8 | Some elements, including dialogue, may be invented, |
| 0:09.0 | but everything is based on research. Gregory Richardson grips his front door handle and takes a deep breath, bracing himself. |
| 0:26.0 | He's afraid of what he might find when he steps outside. |
| 0:30.0 | It's around 930 a.m. on Monday, August 29, 2005 in New Orleans, Louisiana. |
| 0:37.8 | Overnight, the wind howled and rain poured down as Hurricane Katrina made landfall. |
| 0:44.6 | Richardson huddled inside, convinced the walls of his house were going to rip off. |
| 0:49.9 | But now that the worst of the storm seems to have passed, |
| 0:53.1 | he's ready to assess the damage. |
| 0:56.3 | Richardson is a successful real estate investor |
| 0:59.3 | in his late 40s. |
| 1:00.7 | He grew up in New Orleans lower Ninth Ward, a predominantly black working class neighborhood. |
| 1:06.0 | Now he lives just 10 miles from there, but a world away, in a beautiful home with a swimming pool in eastern New Orleans. |
| 1:15.1 | He's proud of the life he's built here for himself and his family. |
| 1:18.7 | He loves his home and hopes Katrina didn't damage anything beyond repair. |
| 1:24.2 | He opens the door. |
| 1:25.8 | The wind is stronger than he expected, |
| 1:28.4 | and some rain is still coming down, |
| 1:30.8 | so he only ventures as far as the covered porch. A tree branch could still |
| 1:35.5 | come tobling down, but at first glance things don't seem too bad. His privacy |
| 1:42.2 | fence is damaged but that can be easily fixed. He doesn't see any |
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