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 ...

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 ...

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 ...