Editor’s note: Some images in this post may be disturbing because of their graphic nature. In 2005, when many people were faced with the impossible decision of whether to be rescued from the ...

Fifteen years later, things probably ... piles of debris that were once homes and buildings were left when the water receded. The National Hurricane Center lists Katrina in the top five deadliest ...

Colleen Bordelon's family was the first to return to their block in Saint Bernard Parish, outside New Orleans, after Hurricane Katrina ... sent word we were coming, and she'd left the front ...

Victims of Hurricane ... were left with inadequate aid and shelter, all but abandoned by officials who couldn’t, or in some cases wouldn’t, help them. In our current remembrance, Katrina ...

On Aug. 29, 2005, the Category 3 Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Louisiana ... and tens of thousands of others, were essentially left to fend for themselves for days because of the failure ...