This week brings a somber anniversary for the Gulf Coast: It was on August 29, 2005, that Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Louisiana as a Category 3 storm. The storm wasn’t the strongest hurricane ...
For the next 12 months, WDSU will feature stories on the people who played key roles before, during and after the storm.
We called it 'Faces of Katrina' ... the video above is a look at all those we featured.
It has been 20 years since Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, killing more than 1,800 people, displacing hundreds of thousands more, and exposing the systemic neglect of some ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, the lessons learned from that catastrophic storm continue to shape how one of America's largest healthcare ...
Across the Southeast, hurricanes dominate conversations from June through September. But this year feels different—it marks the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s devastating landfall in ...
It has been 20 years since Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, submerged a major American city, killed nearly 1,400 people, and displaced 1 million more. Two decades is a long enough period ...
Twenty years later, Hannibal Nicholls recounts what was going on in his life toward the end of August 2005. He was in college and was engaged to his fiancée. Then suddenly, he was in the Orleans ...
Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast on Aug. 29, 2005, with wind gusts exceeding 130 mph and a surge of water taller than a two-story building. The water left the coast in ruins and swelled through ...
My family was fortunate enough to be able to evacuate. We worried about affording gas, food and lodging, but we pooled enough to at least cover us for a few days. We had no idea what was to come.
Hours from landfall, Hurricane Melissa is also slow moving like Hurricane Harvey in 2017, which could mean catastrophic flooding. By Judson Jones Reporter and meteorologist Hurricane Melissa is only ...