What made Hurricane Katrina a catastrophe, and why its horrors linger 20 years later
- Posted on August 29, 2025
- By Washington Post
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What made Hurricane Katrina a catastrophe, and why its horrors linger 20 years later
Twenty years after one of the nation’s most costly and transformative disasters, visuals from Katrina are seared into collective memories — of a major American city drowning.