How Hurricane Katrina exposed failures in disaster response and changed FEMA, evacuations, and emergency planning in America.
Empire, La (WVUE) - On a warm, sunny day this month, the Delta Marina looked like a fisherman’s paradise, with sunlight glistening on the water and seagulls flying overhead. But 20 years ago, Mitch ...
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - In the aftermath of one of history’s biggest engineering failures -- the breaching of levees during Hurricane Katrina -- the federal government built a nearly $15 billion levee ...
Being in Mississippi and Louisiana to report on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina was an assault on the senses. The then-Category 3 hurricane made landfall on the Gulf Coast states on Aug. 29, 2005, ...
Hurricane Katrina uprooted many lives, creating one of the largest internal displacements in modern American history. More than 1 million people were forced to leave their homes in search of safety ...
Updated September 30, 2025 at 10:49 AM CDT Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana 20 years ago this week. The storm killed more than 1,300 people and displaced tens of thousands more. In the years since ...
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