1. A KATRINA BIOGRAPHY
Anatomy of a Mega Disaster
THE CONTRAFLOW PROJECT
M. Darryl Woods, Lead Researcher
www.thecontraflow.org

2. The Researcher
M. Darryl Woods INDEPENDENT:
• Geographer
• Researcher
• Journalist
• Archivist
• Author
• Publisher
• Filmmaker

3. The Response (in real time)
• Dodged a bullet
• Levees overtopped
or breached?
• Looping Looting
• Superdome
• Convention Center
• General Honore
• Astrodome

4. The Relief
• Leaving Las Vegas
• Dallas Reunion
Arena Mission
• Last Post-Storm
Evacuation Flight to
Omaha
• The “Soul Patrol”
• U. of Iowa

5. The Resettlement
• Ground Zero
• Camp Epiphany
• Camp Bullet’s
• Camp Mama D
• Common Ground
• Congressional
Hearings
• Merry Christmas ‘05

6. The Repopulation
• Disaster Tourism
• City Hall
• MLK Day ‘06
• Second Line
• Mardi Gras ‘06
• St. Augustine
Catholic Church
Protest
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7. The Research
• Search Engines
• Delta Airlines VPs
• DMATs

8. The Recovery
• 1st Anniversary
• Team Contraflow
• Plaquemines Parish
• FEMA Trailers

9. The Re-evaluation
• FEMA
• Helinet Aviation
• DHS
• DOT
• DOD
• USFWS
• Instate/Neighboring
States Response

10. The Response (in reality)

11. Day 0: Sun, 8.28.05

12. Day 1: Mon, 8.29.05

13. Day 2: Tue, 8.30.05

14. Day 3: Wed, 8.31.05

15. Day 4: Thu, 9.1.05

16. Day 5: Fri, 9.2.05

17. Day 6: Sat, 9.3.05

18. Day 7: Sun, 9.4.05

19. The Repercussions

20. The Respect
M.D. Woods & the Soul Patrol ‘10

21. The Rewrite
• ’10: IT/Social Media
• ’11: NOPD, JPSO, Gen.
Honore, Bill Waldron
• ’12: Convention Center,
Hurricane Isaac
• ’13: Superdome, LANG,
Ray Nagin
• ’14: The Epiphany
• ’15: 10-yr Anniversary

22. The Rest of the Story
• CONTRAFLOW: Six
Degrees of Separation
Following Hurricane
Katrina, Greater New
Orleans Flood and the
Second Evacuation ‘09
• CONTRAFLOW: A
Katrina Heptalogy ’15
• From a single book project
to a seven-book series