How Katrina Shaped the Foundation’s Leadership in Disaster Response and Recovery By Andy Kopplin A few hours before midnight on August 29th, 2005, I got a phone call from General Hunt Downer of the Louisiana National Guard. Hurricane Katrina had made landfall earlier that evening, and General Downer was calling to report flooding in the... The post How Katrina Shaped the Foundation’s Leadership in Disaster Response and Recovery appeared first on Greater New Orleans Foundation.