It’s been 20 years since category 3 Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans , Louisiana, on Aug. 29, 2005, and the city’s levees broke, causing catastrophic flooding that killed more than a thousand people.

Katrina is still considered the costliest U.S. hurricane on record at more than $200 billion in today’s dollars. Tens of thousands of New Orleans residents were displaced, and many never returned, moving to other states like Texas and Georgia. The city and the federal government were accused of not doing enough to protect the hardest-hit areas before the storm and to rehabilitate them afterwards because their residents were predominantly Black and brown.

The continued impact of the hurricane comes into focus in a new three-part documentary series, Katrina: Come Hell and High Water

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