NEW ORLEANS —

"It's a Category 5." Advertisement

Anyone who was in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina remembers those exact words.

In the days and hours leading up to Hurricane Katrina's landfall, there was one voice that provided calm before the storm, that of Margaret Orr.

WDSU provided nonstop coverage, but it was Orr who announced the fateful news that Katrina had strengthened into a catastrophic storm ahead of its eventual landfall on the Gulf Coast.

Orr reflects on how the storm changed her life and the city forever.

Watch her tell her Hurricane Katrina story in the video player above.

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