Councilman Jon Johnson releases wreath into Industrial Canal. Photo/Matthew Hinton, New Orleans Times Picayune

Despite little mention in mainstream media that New Orleans area residents were commemorating the Sixth Anniversary of the worst civil engineering disaster in U.S. history, there were nonetheless many signs that we are reaching our goals.

The Kansas City Star featured an on-target piece that described the historic flooding both completely and accurately.

A detailed Associated Press story about the Anniversary began by describing the flooding in New Orleans very well – even by our strict standards:

NEW ORLEANS — The Gulf Coast mixed somber ceremonies with New Orleans’ signature flair to mark the sixth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and honor those killed during the catastrophic storm that drowned much of the region’s dominant city and devastated coastal towns in Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana.

Monday marked the passage of six difficult years of rebuilding for the region, which is showing signs of a strong recovery from the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history. The storm killed more than 1,800 people, a majority of them in New Orleans where water filled up the city after levees and floodwalls built by the Army Corps of Engineers failed (italics ours)….

Also, the New Orleans Times Picayune resisted Katrina ‘shorthand’ and accurately protrayed the cause of the horrific historic flooding in the captions of this pictorial created by Matthew Hinton.

Click here for the entire AP article.