HOUSTON — 20 years later and I’ll never forget when the first buses from New Orleans rolled into Houston. I stood at the Astrodome as families stepped off. I hugged survivors, held back tears, helped ...

“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 ...

Melvin Cohea wound through the flooded streets of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. He was evacuated five days after the ...

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 ...

Charmaine Neville feels ill every time she learns a storm is in the Gulf of Mexico. "I just panic, the anxiety comes," Neville says. "It's never going to go away, because the horrible things that I ...

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 ...

A recent ProPublica report revealed data showing that some of the hardest-hit victims of Hurricane Katrina were shortchanged ...

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 ...

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 ...