BEFORE: New Orleans on August 26, 2000. (NASA image by Jesse Allen using data provided by USGS Center for EROS and the Landsat Project Science Office at Goddard Space Flight Center.) 80% of New ...
NEW ORLEANS, L.A. — Friday marks 20 years since Hurricane Katrina made landfall in southeast Louisiana, becoming one of the deadliest storms in U.S. history that drastically changed the city of New ...
Hurricane Katrina caused widespread devastation and approximately $161 billion in damages, prompting significant changes to Louisiana's flood laws. Louisiana established the Coastal Protection and ...
A tropical wave moved off the coast of Africa into the Atlantic Ocean on Aug. 11, 2005, on a westward path. As it crossed the Central Atlantic and eventually reached the Leeward Islands, on Aug. 19 it ...
Katrina claimed the lives of at least 1,300 people across the Gulf Coast. Twenty years ago, on Aug. 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina cemented itself in history as one of the deadliest and most devastating ...
In Louisiana, heat and hurricanes can feel like a generational curse. After two decades, an editor who grew up in the state remembers and reflects on Katrina Kayla Randall - Digital Editor, Museums My ...
What started as Tropical Depression Twelve on Aug. 23, 2005, over the Greater Antilles would soon become one of the deadliest hurricanes on record to hit the United States. Traveling through ...