Bellau, 47, is credited with rescuing over 400 people during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, bringing survivors ... I saw bodies floating in the water.” After having guns pointed at him ...

Network is chronicling the impact of the catastrophe and the people who rebuilt their lives and reshaped communities across ...

We're less than 50 days out from the official start of the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season, and first responders and ...

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 ...

WDSU Chief Meteorologist Emeritus Margaret Orr spoke at the National Hurricane Center conference in New Orleans Tuesday.

How mind-boggling to think that so much Hurricane Katrina history is contained in ... scows and skiffs—even a floating wagon—became emergency ambulances, used to rescue people trapped in ...

This is how Ausettua AmorAmenkum, 69, recalls her return to her home, following the destruction Hurricane Katrina brought upon her native town in August of 2005. It’s now been 20 years since the ...

As Hurricane Katrina approached in August 2005 ... pointing to a pool table they were about to run over. “The table was floating on the surface with the balls and rack, exactly where it would ...

Compounding the destructive power of the rushing water is the large amount of floating debris ... the Lake Okeechobee Hurricane of 1928 (2,500 killed), and Hurricane Katrina of 2005 (1,833 killed ...

The museum first planned to open in 2006. Then Hurricane Katrina hurled a floating casino barge into one of the galleries. “There was marsh grass at the top of the phone poles,” Houston said.

Hurricane Katrina took a large toll on Biloxi. It decimated its casinos, damaged its famous lighthouse and took the lives of hundreds along the Gulf Coast. This 12-foot-tall black granite slab ...