20 years ago, since Hurricane Katrina Louisiana and Mississippi destroyed

New Orleans – 20 years have passed since Hurricane Katrina criticized the Gulf Coast as a storm of Series 3. The disaster is remembered not only for its winds, but for the overwhelming boom of the water that destroyed the countryside Louisiana diocese And I was lewned the heart of New Orleans.

Katrina was weakened before falling on August 29, 2005, but it is still hitting the border Louisiana Mississippi as a Category 3 Storm. The storm flooded the houses, took more than a thousand life and turned the reality into a nightmare along the Gulf coast.

Memories from Louisiana

At Plaquueines diocese, the seven -year -old Corrine English lost almost everything when it swallowed the small town of Bouras hunting with flood water.

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“A part of me feels that it was only yesterday because of the feeling of thinking about everything that is transferred from us,” Enklish said. “It is a really raw feeling.”

English said that she remembers the moment when she watched her mother’s reaction to the news, as Katrina’s eye focused on Bouras, Louisiana.

“I think this was when I realized that something was really wrong,” she said. “This will not be anything where we can only pack our bags back up and return home.”

It is expected that the storm will be installed in a drilling -like scenario, sixty miles north, in SuperDome in New Orleans, is expected to ride the storm in a drilling scenario.

“You would come, the storm would go, and then everyone leaves,” Ridush recalls.

But when the dams failed, thousands of people were trapped inside while the supplies diminished and the conditions deteriorated quickly.

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“It was basically a three -day fist battle … people did not know how to act,” Ridush said.

For families in Bouras, staying different. The entire neighborhoods disappeared under the water, left the residents cut and isolated.

“The matter was not limited to that, as the parents who watched on TV were penetrating their entire world,” said English.

Today, the only part of the childhood of the English language that remains is a structure that it carries through the storm, which is a small reminder of survival and flexibility.

“Sometimes it looks like yesterday,” said English. “At other times, it seems as if it was 100 years ago, because my life has changed … a lot. It is difficult not to wonder how my life was if that did not happen.”

Reflections from Mississippi

In Mississippi, where Increase the storm Katrina On many of the Gulf coast, societies are also considering what has changed and what they did.

“Everyone was a loss,” said Leonard Papania, former police chief of Golfurt. “In moments like this, do not build a character, you show her,” he said.

today, GULFPORT features blue skyPalm trees and a new look. But two decades ago, the scene was unknown. Papania, who was then a young lieutenant, remembers the streets that he could no longer get to know.

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“It was just stopping a heart, and the area in which I grew up, and I lived here all my life,” said Babania. “You don’t even know where you were.”

Four pair and father also lost his house.

Robert Lassi, who helped coordinate law enforcement and emergency management during the storm clearly.

“For Katrina, I had that vision that this is what I would see … I did not realize that he would be on doping,” Lasi said.

It was not the first brutal storm he saw. When he was a child in 1969, he lived through Hurricane Cameel, who settled entire societies.

“You must understand the strength of the water,” Lasi said. “The buildings that survived Cameel did not survive Catherina.”

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Today, emergency officials say that Katrina’s lessons continue to direct their response.

“We are planning the potential failures of our systems,” said Matt, the Emergency Commander at Golfurt. “We have paper backup copies, we have alternative forms of communication.”

However, for papania, memories remain close.

“I always say that I will not exchange the experience that I went through in Katrina, but I don’t want to do it again,” he said.