Hurricane Katrina, 10 Years Later
Edited by Olivier Laurent and Marisa Schwartz Taylor On Aug. 29, 2005, the Category 3 Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Louisiana with winds of up to 125 mph, causing an unprecedented storm surge and catastrophic floods in communities around Lake Pontchartrain in New Orleans. At least 1,800 people were killed and 400,000 forced to leave