This Friday will mark 20 years since Hurricane Katrina forever changed the city of New Orleans. In the days and weeks that followed, Houston housed over 200,000 people from New Orleans in need of a place of refuge after the storm. ABC13 meteorologist Elyse Smith reports on the impact that event had on Houston 20 years later.

Many recall Hurricane Katrina as both a natural and man-made disaster , as it was both the force of a major hurricane and the failure of the levee system that led to the extensive damage and loss of life in New Orleans.

Ronisha Johnson is an attorney based in the Woodlands who came to the Houston area the day before Katrina. This was just after attending her first day of high school in New Orleans. She recalls her mom telling her, "Go ahead and pack your bag for

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