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The article presents information on several victims of Hurricane Katrina, whose homes were destroyed. A New Orleans resident Mathew Cardinale called his parents and his grandmother to ensure that they were all right. Information on several persons related to the hurricane is presented including Anita Roberson-Taylor a former employee of a publishing housing sector in New Orleans.

The article presents the author's views on the historic city Savannah, Georgia. As a native of New Orleans, the author has always been curious about Savannah, a romantic city often compared to his hometown. According to the author, driving down Georgia's romantic coast eases his homesickness for New Orleans. Driving into the town, he admires the gracious antebellum mansions, pristine city squares and massive Spanish moss-laden trees that supply most of quaint hamlet's endearing charm, but clearly there is also a burgeoning movement to give the city a more contemporary vibe. The photographs of various places from Georgia and New Orleans have also been presented in the article.

This article presents a first hand account of the author during the hurricane Katrina that hit her hometown New Orleans, Louisiana. The author has never believed in coincidences and certainly don't now, given the fateful events that have occurred since Hurricane Katrina obliterated her hometown of New Orleans. The odds that the author's mother and the author who has lived in Atlanta for nearly 20 years, had gone home just days before the end of New Orleans as one knew it are extraordinary. New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin was making rounds at the TV stations, appealing to residents to leave the city before the predicted Category 5 hurricane hit early Monday morning. The author managed to get a flight from Memphis that arrived in Atlanta at almost the exact time Katrina was battering New Orleans and the other Gulf states.

This article examines the status of housing the residents of New Orleans, Louisiana who were displaced by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, as of March 2009. According to a New Orleans housing report released in August 2008, the ranks of homeless residents doubled across affected South Louisiana parishes. It is stated that rents in the city have doubled and tripled from pre-Katrina rates and only two in five damaged affordable rental units statewide are expected to be repaired or replaced with recovery assistance.

The article focuses on the mental health crisis in New Orleans caused by Hurricane Katrina. A 2007 survey by the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center round that in New Orleans' most devastated areas, 45% of students in fourth through twelfth grades had symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or depression. An August 2006 article in the "Journal of the American Medical Association" noted that the number of licensed psychiatrists in the greater New Orleans area fell from 196 pre-Katrina to 22 in the immediate weeks after the storm.

The article presents information on a French restaurant called "Just Loaf" in New Orleans, Louisiana. The restaurant serves shrimp and cheese grits and sandwiches for breakfast made with sausage or fried fish, eggs and cheese. The restaurant is famous for its excellent customer service and dainty food menu.