Full Coverage: Hurricane Katrina: 10 years later
In late August 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated the city of New Orleans. More than 1,800 people died during the natural disaster, while thousands more fled their homes. Ten years later, the city has made progress on restoring its neighborhoods, but residents no longer see their home the same way.
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Mississippi and Louisiana marked the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina on Saturday by ringing church bells, laying wreaths and celebrating the resiliency of a region still recovering from a disaster that killed more than 1,800 people and caused $151 billion in damage.
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Terry McGaha sat on a balcony in New Orleans’ Lower 9th Ward sipping Crown Royal and staring into the early evening sky as helicopter lights strafed the encroaching Mississippi River.
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Floodwater was everywhere — muddy-brown and streaked in pockets by an oily film.
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The Times interviewed hundreds of survivors in the immediate aftermath Katrina.
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Last month, my mother mentioned that she would be out of town on the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
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As President Obama toured the Treme neighborhood of this city on Thursday, admiring the neat rows of brightly painted houses on a street battered by Hurricane Katrina, a 92-year-old woman -- a local icon -- told him she was proud of all he had done.
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This week marks the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.
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This month marks the 10th anniversary of one of the worst disasters in U.S. history: the devastation that Hurricane Katrina wrought on New Orleans, Louisiana and the rest of the Gulf Coast.
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President Obama and former presidents George W.
