(WDNews) – Communities across multiple states pause today to honor the lives lost and forever changed by Hurricane Katrina, which struck exactly 20 years ago on August 29, 2005.
The storm, one of the deadliest in U.S. history, claimed more than 1,800 lives and displaced hundreds of thousands of residents from Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. Floodwaters left much of New Orleans devastated, while coastal towns across the region endured catastrophic damage.
At a New Orleans remembrance service, 9th Ward resident Robert Green said in Netflix’s new docuseries Katrina: Come Hell or High Water, “Our thing is commemorative. Our thing is celebrating their lives. Our thing is giving reverence to the people who lost their lives, the community that was lost, and the idea that this community will come back one day.”
Hurricane Katrina reshaped multiple states and sparked one of the largest disaster response and recovery efforts in American history.
