US EditionPHOTO ESSAY: 20 Years After Hurricane Katrina, These Then-and-Now Photos Show the Power of Place
Artists and institutions in New Orleans commemorate Hurricane Katrina's 20th anniversary with exhibitions highlighting cultural resilience and ongoing recovery challenges.
- This month, Ferrara Showman Gallery opened This City Holds Us, marking Katrina's 20th anniversary, and celebrated its White Linen Night launch with around 35,000 visitors, Jonathan Ferrara said.
- On Aug. 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast and the city of New Orleans, killing 1,392 people and causing $200 billion in damage after levees and floodwalls failed.
- Mixed-Media artist Gina Phillips lost nearly everything, spent two years in a FEMA trailer, and Prospect New Orleans helped reinvigorate art, while Maurice Carlos Ruffin said `Katrina was a canary in the coal mine`.
- Institutions across the city are opening major shows, including The Katrina List at the New Orleans African American Museum and A Time Before Katrina at the New Orleans Museum of Art, while recovery remains uneven, especially in the Lower Ninth Ward.
- A new analysis from Climate Central found Katrina fed on ocean temperatures warmed by 0.9 degrees Celsius, and experts say the same storm would likely be stronger today despite improved hurricane researchers and forecasting models.
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It’s difficult to believe that it has been 20 years since Hurricane Katrina made landfall, causing catastrophic flooding in New Orleans and along the Mississippi coast. Today many are still dealing with mental, physical and financial issues created by the storm. I spent more than 10 days documenting the death, destruction and the resilience of the community. A reporter and I flew into Houston, rented a car and filled it with as much food and wa…
We now know just how much climate change supercharged Hurricane Katrina
Two decades ago, Hurricane Katrina spun up like a massive atmospheric engine, using warm ocean water as fuel. Making landfall as a Category 3 storm with maximum sustained winds of 125 mph, it devastated New Orleans — surging seawater over levees, killing nearly 2,000 people, and causing more than $150 billion in damage. Even though engineers have since significantly bolstered those levees, their ability to withstand climate-supercharged cyclones…
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