AFTER HURRICANE KATRINA – 2015 PHOTOS
President Obama greets residents in New Orleans on Thursday August 27, 2015 while in town to mark 10 years since Hurricane Katrina. Andrew Harnik/AP
Journalist Chandra Thomas Whitfield poses with pictures of her grandparents, Elmo and Mildred Williams, in front of their renovated home which was ravaged by Hurricane Katrina 10 years ago. Tracy Jarrett / NBC News Tracy Jarrett / NBC News
Reuters photographer Carlos Barria holds a print of a photograph he took in 2005, as he matches it up at the same location 10 years later in New Orleans, La., on Aug. 17,. The print shows a woman arriving with her dog at a collection point for victims of Hurricane Katrina, Sept. 8, 2005. Hurricane Katrina triggered floods that inundated New Orleans in 2005. Congress authorized spending more than $14 billion to beef up the city’s flood protection after Katrina and built a series of new barriers that include manmade islands and new wetlands. Carlos Barria/Reuters
Paul and Lakeya Mazant met in 2007, during Mardi Gras, as New Orleans was reeling from the flooding after Hurricane Katrina. The couple — pictured with their son Paul, 1, and daughter Logan, 5 — say they couldn’t imagine falling in love with someone who hadn’t experienced the storm. Walter Ray Watson/NPR
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