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 ...
Those who picked up an edition of the Houston Chronicle on Aug. 31, 2005, would have no doubt heard of Hurricane Katrina and understood its impact. But on the off chance they didn't know beforehand, ...
Across the Southeast, hurricanes dominate conversations from June through September. But this year feels different—it marks the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s devastating landfall in ...
On August 25, 2005, right before it made landfall north of Miami, Tropical Storm Katrina became Hurricane Katrina. As it blew through the southern tip of Florida, it caused some damage and 11 ...
Hurricane Katrina left scars across Louisiana and Mississippi that are still evident 20 years later. Katrina claimed at least 1,392 lives — both during the storm and in its aftermath — and was America ...
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 ...
The Sunday before Hurricane Katrina formed, Edana Lawson and those around her expected the storm to be "like any other hurricane." Church was cancelled that day and Lawson was given an advance by her ...
On Aug. 29, 2005 — exactly 20 years ago today — Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Louisiana. America hasn’t suffered a storm as devastating since. Katrina’s winds, rains, floodwaters and aftereffects ...
The devastation of Hurricane Katrina sparked sweeping changes in hurricane forecasting and emergency preparedness. Forecast models, satellite imagery, and real-time data from Hurricane Hunter aircraft ...
Twenty years ago this month, I was sitting in a Cracker Barrel in Arkansas with two friends, uncertain about whether Hurricane Katrina had destroyed my home in New Orleans. As we finished our meal, ...
It has been 20 years since Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, causing the deaths of more than a thousand people and leaving hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of damage in its wake. A ...
Edana Lawson and Karen Khaton evacuated New Orleans before Hurricane Katrina devastated the city in 2005. They found refuge in Pueblo, Colorado, with Lawson's brother, John Richardson, and his wife, ...