Katrina makes landfall near Grand Isle ... people in the Gulf region were displaced by the storm. At their peak, hurricane relief shelters housed 273,000 people. Later, approximately 114,000 ...

Weathering and working through Hurricane Katrina sharpened me as a parent and a professional. Yet it's nothing compared to what evacuees faced.

The Facts As unusual as this story seems, it did happen, but it deserves additional background and explanation. As reported by the Tampa Bay Times in 2010, as Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005 ...

Hurricane Helene is now the deadliest storm since Katrina, with 182 fatalities confirmed Wednesday across six states in the southeast. The majority of deaths were reported in North Carolina ...

Other extraordinarily deadly hurricanes in recent history have included Hurricane Maria, which killed more than 3,000 people in 2017, and Hurricane Katrina, which killed more than 1,300 in 2005.