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Biloxi's 15-year recovery from Hurricane Katrina offers lessons for other coastal cities

  • Written by Jennifer Trivedi, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Core Faculty Member for the Disaster Research Center, University of Delaware
Biloxi's 15-year recovery from Hurricane Katrina offers lessons for other coastal citiesA demolished miniature golf course in Biloxi, Miss., in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Sept. 15, 2005.Carol M. Highsmith/Buyenlarge/Getty Images

The one-two punch of tropical storms Marco and Laura along the U.S. Gulf coast eerily echoes Hurricane Katrina’s arrival 15 years ago, on August 29, 2005. Katrina, which caused some US$170 billion in...

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