The Impact of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans
August 28, 2024
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall near New Orleans, forever changing the city and its residents’ lives. The storm, one of the deadliest and most destructive in U.S. history, exposed vulnerabilities in the city’s infrastructure—most notably the New Orleans levee failure—which devastated communities and left an indelible mark on the collective memory of […]
