Hurricane Katrina in photos, 20 years after “slow-motion catastrophe”

Hurdle But was described as a “devastation of a slow pace” September 4, 2005 “60 minutes”Six days after beating the Gulf coast. Twenty years later, the storm is expensive and known as one Maximum Ever hit the United States.

Katrina first made a landfall as a category 1 storm in Florida on August 25, 2005. It then intensified for a category 5 storms in the Gulf. Weak to a category 3, it made a landfall again on 29 August 2005 in South -East Louisiana and then in Mississippi.

While the toll was not clear for the days, the storm eventually led to around 1,400 deaths, according to the majority in New Orleans, National storm center,

Initial reports suggested that the loss in New Orleans was not worse than the previous storm, until the Lewaes failed, the city was a storm.

“All the hells became loose only when all the water started burning in the city,” Eddie CompassAt that time, New Orleans Superintendent of Police recently told CBS News in an interview. “When we knew that we have something that was very different from a regular storm.”

At least 80% of New Orleans were flooded. Roads were irrelevant without boats, and people were stranded on the roofs.

Thousands took shelter in New Orleans Superdome Ahead of the storm, but got stuck there for days with limited food and water when the city flooded.

Thousands of people ended on the interstate after avoiding increasing water. They were trapped in summer for days without any help.

Were not able to vacate before many times.

“We do not have transport.

The federal response to New Orleans was strictly criticized for taking a longer. This was three days before the arrival of the National Guard.

When the then Army Lieutenant General Russell Honore-he led a military reaction and credited to bring calm to a chaotic position, he faced a humanitarian crisis.

“I noticed that people are waiting to evacuate. I saw the elderly people on the pavement. I saw the women with infants,” they told Mauris Dubois, the co-edge of “CBS Evening News”.

Hono said in an interview with CBS News, the search and rescue operations and withdrawal were interrupted by several factors, including a broken communication grid.

He said, “Katrina abolished the infrastructure. It broke the communication grid,” he said. “So this was a big challenge to detect accurate status reports, and many people were getting their information from watching television in Baton Rouge and in the federal government.”

One Exaggerated picture of iniquity The situation was also complicated, Hono said.

He said, “This was a major withdrawal operating logistics issue, which was distracted by many political-inspired news that it was a looting problem and not a withdrawal problem,” he said.

The growth of the storm from Katrina also destroyed Mississippi and parts of Alabama. Images showed that the buildings have declined the debris and debris on the entire coast.

A person in Gulfport, Mississippi, after the storm, heard how he was standing on his stove on CBS News because the water filled his kitchen.

Today, some communities, including Dupin Island, AlabamaStill fighting to protect yourself from the next disaster.

New Orleans resident Lower ninth wardA mainly black community that was completely submerged when the flood wall broke, says that the historic neighborhood has never returned what it was before Katrina.

“We are the land that they have forgotten. We are final to fix our streets, to get any kind of help from the last city. If you come here at night it is dark – there is no street sign, no working stop sign, there is no nothing here. There is nothing. Two stores and a primary school, when a ton of resources is used, said.

Another resident, Frank Parker said the neighborhood “still looks like a dead area.”

Kati Vice contributed to this report.