What started as Tropical Depression Twelve on Aug. 23, 2005, over the Greater Antilles would soon become one of the deadliest hurricanes on record to hit the United States. Traveling through ...

Hurricane Katrina was described as "a slow-motion catastrophe" on "60 Minutes" on Sept. 4, 2005, six days after slamming the Gulf Coast. Twenty years later, the storm is known as the costliest and one ...

How Hurricane Katrina exposed failures in disaster response and changed FEMA, evacuations, and emergency planning in America.

As Katrina developed into a hurricane, the massive storm spun off more than 40 tornadoes. There were multiple warnings. As early as Aug. 24, there were watches and warnings. On Aug. 27, there was a ...

The devastation of Hurricane Katrina sparked sweeping changes in hurricane forecasting and emergency preparedness. Forecast models, satellite imagery, and real-time data from Hurricane Hunter aircraft ...

Twenty years ago, on Aug. 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina cemented itself in history as one of the deadliest and most devastating disasters to strike the United States. Katrina claimed the lives of 1,392 ...

“We Came to Rebuild New Orleans: Stories of the Hurricane Katrina Volunteers” by Christopher E. Manning, LSU Press, 308 pages, and “Rebuilding New Orleans: Immigrant Laborers and Street Food Vendors ...

“God wanted me to be there,” Shelton Alexander says. "He wanted me to tell this story” Angelina Liu is an editorial intern at PEOPLE. Her work has previously appeared in The Daily Texan and The Austin ...

Advances in forecast models, satellite data, and radar technology have transformed hurricane predictions since 2005.