Remembering Hurricane Katrina 19 years later

Hurricane Katrina made landfall 19 years ago today.

Katrina hit Mississippi as a category three hurricane, leaving destruction and significant loss of life. The National Weather Service saying Katrina is one of the five deadliest hurricanes to hit the United States.

Almost 2,000 people were killed and almost $108 billion was done in damage.

Waveland is known as Ground Zero for Hurricane Katrina. It is an area that will never forget. They have a museum that remembers what so many people went through in 2005.

In Gulfport near Island View, it was just one of many areas facing massive devastation. Homes were wiped out, streets destroyed, and a huge storm surge that brought everything in the Gulf to the shore.

For neighbors who lived here 19 years ago, that memory of Hurricane Katrina will never go away.

Now residents on this part of the Coast every time they hear about a possible storm, there’s always a little worry that it could happen again.

Further up Beach Boulevard in Biloxi and Ocean Springs, Hurricane Katrina came with a force, knocking out bridges and bringing a lot of flooding.

This bridge between Biloxi and Ocean Springs rebuilt after Hurricane Katrina. The hurricane force winds of this storm took out everything in its way.

You can imagine not only structures wiped out, but lives at risk.

All those along the Coast from on up through Jackson County felt this hurricane and those around during that time will never forget.

Today the rebuild since Hurricane Katrina continues with hopes we will fully bounce back, but how did the hurricane affect you? Go to our Facebook page and let us know.