Fultondale resident recalls leaving New Orleans in the wake of Katrina in 2005

FULTONDALE, Ala. (WIAT) -- Friday marks the 20-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina making landfall along the U.S. Gulf Coast.

According to the National Weather Service, Katrina is the costliest hurricane to ever hit the United States, and one of the five deadliest, claiming 1,833 lives.

On Thursday, we sat down with Fultondale resident Lucy Latshaw, who moved to Alabama with her husband and three sons in the wake of the devastation.

“We took all the kids, and we laid under the dining room table and just waited… it was very much like this, with palm trees swaying,” she recalled.

Latshaw says she will never forget August 29, 2005, when Hurricane Katrina made landfall. She and her husband and three sons, who lived in Metairie, had sought shelter at her mother-in-law’s house in nearby Co