Across the Southeast, hurricanes dominate conversations from June through September. But this year feels different—it marks the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s devastating landfall in ...

Twenty years later, Edward Buckles Jr. remembers Katrina − remembers at age 13 having his neighborhood swept away by the hurricane's raging waters, a defining moment of his life that would dislodge ...

Hurricane Katrina left scars across Louisiana and Mississippi that are still evident 20 years later. Katrina claimed at least 1,392 lives — both during the storm and in its aftermath — and was America ...

In August, 2005, America suffered one of the worst disasters in its long history when Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast. The massive storm caused widespread damage across the region, but it was in ...

HOUSTON – When Jermaine Moore needs a haircut, he looks for barbers from New Orleans. At a Shaving Grace barbershop in the southeast Houston area, he's found one. "New Orleans barbers cut different," ...

Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast on Aug. 29, 2005, with wind gusts exceeding 130 mph and a surge of water taller than a two-story building. The water left the coast in ruins and swelled through ...

In September 2005, as Louisiana was still reeling from the blow dealt by Hurricane Katrina, another monster storm was brewing in the Gulf. That storm, Hurricane Rita, would make landfall Sept. 24 on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What were the strongest hurricanes to make landfall in the United States in recorded history? While storms like Katrina and Helene ...

When Hurricane Katrina first hit the Mississippi Gulf Coast on Aug. 29, 2005, I was working as a consultant in the Bethesda, Maryland office of Reznick Group (now CohnReznick). Being more than 1,000 ...

NhuNgoc Pham was a high school student living in the New Orleans metro area when Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005. Her parents, immigrants from Vietnam, had recently purchased ...

Jirron Minor Jr.'s two newborn sisters were airlifted from a New Orleans hospital to Dallas amid the crisis — and at first, the family had idea where they were Kim Leeson Twins Yakierra and Yasmine ...

It's hard to know how many people who lost their home in New Orleans made Houston their permanent home. After Hurricane Katrina, evacuees changed Houston and the city changed them HOUSTON – When ...