UPI

Hurricane Katrina by the numbers, 20 years later

On Aug. 19, 2005, a tropical wave formed in the Caribbean, one of many that hurricane season. But this one would evolve into one of the most devastating storms in U.S. history. Ten days later, after ...
WWNO

Hurricane Katrina forced changes at FEMA. Trump is rolling them back

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 ...
The Boston Globe

Several myths still surround the infamous Hurricane Katrina two decades later. Here are a few.

It’s hard to believe it’s been 20 years since Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast as a powerful Category 3 hurricane, ultimately becoming one of the most catastrophic and defining natural ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Twenty Years After Hurricane Katrina, Many of Us Are Still Missing All That We Lost—and Grappling With One of the Country’s Worst Disasters

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 ...
NOLA.com

20 years later, the children of Katrina have grown up. Here's how the storm shaped their lives.

Cierra Chenier doesn't like to leave New Orleans. Not after being forced out after Hurricane Katrina drowned the city. Not for too long. Not when so many family members, childhood friends and ...
Phys.org

Hurricane Katrina: Three painful lessons for emergency management are increasingly important 20 years later

Hurricane Katrina looms large in the history of American emergency management, both for what went wrong as the disaster unfolded and for the policy changes it triggered. As the nation looks back on ...
WLOX

Katrina20: Deep dive into the track, intensity, surge and impacts in South Mississippi

BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - From the 1947 hurricane to Camille in 1969 and all the storms before, after, and in between, the Mississippi Coast is no stranger to the destructive force of hurricanes. It is ...
Yahoo

Why Hurricane Katrina was so uniquely catastrophic — and remains America's most devastating storm, 20 years later

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Water surrounds homes in the devastated Ninth Ward in this aerial view of damage from Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. (Smiley N.