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An aerial view of rebuilt elevated homes earlier this month along Waveland Beach in Mississippi, an area hard-hit by Hurricane Katrina 20 years ago. The catastrophic storm sent an approximately 30-foot-high storm surge into Waveland and destroyed or damaged nearly every home in the town. Nearly 1,400 people died across the Gulf Coast, and it remains the costliest storm in …

I first started blogging for Weather Underground, the weather service I founded, in the spring of 2005. For the first few months, it was a slow time for interesting weather events, and I had trouble finding topics to write about. I was relieved when June 2005 brought two Atlantic tropical storms to discuss. But as July brought an unprecedented five …

Spike Lee’s Return to Katrina Is a Poignant, Cagey Prayer for a Brighter Future That Is Still Out of Sight  IndieWire ‘Katrina: Come Hell and High Water’ Is a Gripping New Docuseries  The New York Times Katrina: Come Hell and High Water review – Spike Lee gets straight to the defiant, joyous soul of New Orleans  The Guardian Hurricane Katrina Showed How Quickly …

MoMA Film Series: Reclaiming New Orleans, 20 Years After Katrina  The New York Times Hurricane Katrina survivors remember the acts of compassion that saved them 20 years ago  NBC News Katrina20: Deep dive into the track, intensity, surge and impacts in South Mississippi  WLOX Hurricane Katrina: 20 Years Of Recovery  The Weather Channel A lesson learned after pets were left behind in Hurricane Katrina: …

Burnell Cotlon is the owner of Burnell’s Lower 9th Ward Market, which one of the very few businesses still surviving in the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans. Many residents did not return to the area after Hurricane Katrina hit the area in 2005. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption toggle caption Claire Harbage/NPR NEW ORLEANS — Almost 20 years after Hurricane …

Darren McKinney, the field operations director of lowernine.org, takes a break during a shift repairing a neighbor’s home in New Orleans’s Lower Ninth Ward on 20 August 2025. Darren McKinney grew up in New Orleans’s Lower Ninth Ward. When Hurricane Katrina struck 20 years ago this week, he watched his neighborhood wash away. From his second floor apartment, he saw …

Tens of thousands of pets — if not hundreds of thousands — were left in places like New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina because disaster response agencies told people to leave pets behind. Chris Hondros/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Chris Hondros/Getty Images Nita Hemeter remembers the barking and meowing, and being able to look up from the middle of a …

Hurricane Katrina was a terrifying experience for more than a million people affected across the Gulf Coast region. Nearly 1,400 people died, most of them in New Orleans — and 20 years later, some communities are still struggling to recover. The National Hurricane Center says the costliest hurricane in U.S. history — more than $201 billion based on the 2024 …

Then-U.S. President George W. Bush talks with then-U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré on the flight deck of the USS Iwo Jima on Sept. 20, 2005, in New Orleans, La. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Army Lieutenant General Russel Honoré became a household name in 2005 when he led recovery efforts as commander of Joint …

Sandy Rosenthal, founder of Levees.org, stands in the Flooded House Museum where one of the levees breached in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The house was flooded, though the interior now is a recreation made by local artists. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption toggle caption Claire Harbage/NPR NEW ORLEANS — On a quiet street in the Gentilly neighborhood, a …