This interview has been edited for length and clarity. *When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005, the storm left not ...

Aug. 29, 2007 — -- It's been exactly two years since Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, ... 446,000 people live in the six lower coastal Mississippi counties worst hit by Katrina.

Over the past 100-plus years, the United States has been hit by some of its worst hurricanes. In 2005, Hurricane Katrina caused $125 billion in property damage.

When Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast 10 years ago, it would become the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history, causing an estimated $108 billion in damages. It would also be one of the ...

Sept. 12, 2005 — -- Federal and state officials have blamed each other for the disastrous response in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. But the official disaster response plan obtained ...

When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005, Bobby Norton was a Captain at the New Orleans Police Department. He recounts his experience during an interview for National Geographic's Hurricane ...

A month passed before I learned my older sister in hard-hit Gulfport survived. And though I thought I’d well-handled 11 days of what felt like survival in the Outback, I finally broke down in ...

A new study has found that 67% of the fatalities in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina hit in August 2005 resulted from direct impacts of the flooding that occurred when the levees collapsed.