As 2025 draws to a close, we revisit the stories of four people who now call Colorado home. They have a common bond: They all survived the American tragedy known as Hurricane Katrina, which devastated ...

In the early hours of August 29, 2005, Arnold Burks woke to the sound of screams as 125-mile-per-hour winds whipped through his neighborhood. When Hurricane Katrina hit, the 13-year-old was one of the ...

OXFORD --A couple who left New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina was keeping close tabs on Hurricane Isaac on Tuesday. “I think the whole city has PTSD when it comes to storms,” said Jeri Halperin, who ...

Texas Governor Greg Abbott speaks during a press briefing at the State of Texas Emergency Command Center at Department of Public Safety headquarters in Austin as he updates the public about how the ...

Raleigh, NC -- John Booth landed in a different world Monday night. No gunfire. No flooding. No bodies left on the interstate. "The things that are going on in that town, nobody would believe," said ...

MARBLE FALLS, Texas -- After Hurricane Katrina slammed the gulf coast in August 2005, thousands of people who fled New Orleans came to the Austin Convention Center, the Delco Center and the Tony ...

Joshua Clark is no stranger to the loss that comes from weather disasters. While he has overseen durable home construction projects across five continents — notably helping people rebuild in his ...

Photographs of New Orleans Lower Ninth Ward line a wall in a local art gallery. It’s the images Danita Bright captured of Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath. Surreal and devastating, one particular picture ...

Twenty years after Katrina, Rosie O'Donnell says catastrophic images of people “in the most overwhelming amount of need” galvanized her to give back The comedian helped build a community center and ...

Hurricane Katrina occurred 20 years ago in the Gulf Coast of the southern U.S. The tragedy and its aftermath for the evacuees and descendants of the many deceased constitute a mass trauma. Researchers ...