Making landfall on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans with enormous force. The city had faced deadly storms previously, including Hurricane Betsy in 1965, which caused extensive ...

1. Katrina makes landfall in Louisiana at 6:10 a.m., but the flooding of residential areas in greater New Orleans actually begins an hour and a half earlier. Between 4:30 and 5 a.m., levees ...

20 YEARS SINCE HURRICANE KATRINA MADE LANDFALL, FOREVER CHANGING OUR WAY OF LIFE AND CULTURE. WDSU IS FEATURING STORIES ON PEOPLE WHO PLAYED KEY ROLES BEFORE, DURING, AND AFTER THAT DEADLY STORM ...

The major storm made landfall in the Big Bend region of Florida on Sept. 26, 2024, before going on to devastate Appalachia. It was “the deadliest hurricane in the contiguous U.S. since Katrina ...