A Storm

REMEMBERING HURRICANE KATRINA 10 YEARS LATER: There has been some terrific journalism pegged to this week’s aluminum anniversary. What follows is a compilation of some of the best pieces out there this morning.

Aerial view of houses swamped by floodwaters after Huricane Katrina. (Photo by Liz Roll/FEMA)

— Katrina is both a metaphor and reality, by the Post’s Janell Ross (on the front page of today’s paper):

Katrina is a one-word metaphor for major failing and limited redress, for belated reaction and selective improvement … Katrina is perhaps the greatest modern example of a failure to comprehend the vulnerabilities created and deepened by poverty before a calamity. Rarely have Americans been so openly confronted with the still relentless correlation between race and resources.

— How the storm destroyed the physical landscape of New Orleans and the lives of its families, from the Post’s Deanne L. Brown.

A car is spray painted after it was searched for bodies in a totally destroyed neighborhood in Waveland, Miss. (Jonathan Newton/TWP)

— Will New Orleans culture survive the post-Katrina boom? An analysis from the Times-Picayune.

— An editorial on the reform of New Orleans jails, from the New York Times:  There are no easy victories in New Orleans. But the dramatic reduction of the city’s jail population, and the commitment of residents and city leaders to focus on getting it lower and focusing more on violent offenders, is an important step forward against great odds.

— How the storm raised Bobby Jindal’s political stock, from the Times-Picayune.

Louisiana National Guard Adjutant General and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin listened as Jindal announced that the National Guard will stay in the city of New Orleans. (Associated Press File)

— A profile of Turkey Creek, the historically black district where no one died during the storm thanks to locals’ efforts, from the Post’s Deanne L. Brown.

— Members of Houston’s Katrina diaspora reflect on the last 10 years, from the Wall Street Journal:

Katrina evacuees have made their mark on Houston. They include barbers, brass-band players and bankers. They have opened eateries with names like Big Easy Express and established congregations including the local branch of New Orleans’s Franklin Avenue Baptist Church. Some stayed because they had little to return to. “I had to start all over again,” said Ebony Handy, 41, whose home in New Orleans’s Lower Ninth Ward had to be demolished.

— Katrina’s key players, then and now, from National Public Radio.

— Stop blaming me for Hurricane Katrina, Michael (“Heck of a job, Brownie”) Brown writes in Politico.

— Check out a gallery of iconic images of the storm’s aftermath, from the Post.

— Watch a video of President Obama hailing the city of New Orleans for its progress.

Obama in New Orleans yes(AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

— A look at Katrina through the political cartoons of Ann Telnaes.

— On Twitter, locals have been reflecting on Katrina in 10 words: