During Katrina, the intersection of the Intracoastal Waterway and the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet acted like a giant “V” to funnel storm surge into New Orleans East and St. Bernard Parish.

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- As the heart of a hurricane ... bridge. They stopped us with shotguns. "We had people in wheelchairs, we had people in strollers, people on crutches, so we were ...

Bellau, 47, is credited with rescuing over 400 people during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, bringing survivors who were confined to their homes due to murky floodwaters to safety aboard a 24 ...

Like the timeliness of the people living and working there despite adversity, they were still standing, at least until Katrina ... The walk to the bridge was a walk from reality to fantasy.

In prior years, it was easy to believe that hurricanes were ... people if the grid goes down.” The retired general turned climate change commander said that, after Hurricane Katrina, then ...

AND 20 YEARS AFTER HURRICANE KATRINA TORE ... IT TAKES 3000 PEOPLE TO RUN OPERATIONS FOR AN NFL GAME. THEY HAD 20 STAFFERS AND 300 NATIONAL GUARD SOLDIERS THAT WERE PRETTY EXPERIENCED IN DEALING ...

Making landfall on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans with enormous ... But the effect of the losses in New Orleans were overwhelming. The hurricane caused the deaths of more ...

Transporting animals who were already up for adoption out of ... Providing emergency grants to partner groups on the ground. "Hurricane Katrina raised awareness about the importance of the human ...

They mean as much to me as my own," Mike Maroney tells PEOPLE Becky Randel has been ... the little girl he saved during Hurricane Katrina, are quite a different story. When pararescuer (or ...