The long recovery on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, 'ground zero' for Hurricane Katrina

Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour stands before a wall-sized satellite image of Hurricane Katrina as it headed for landfall on Aug. 29, 2005.

"The eye came in right there over the Pearl River, which is the boundary between Louisiana and Mississippi," he says.

It was packing winds of 120 miles an hour and a storm surge nearing 30 feet. "The most powerful winds, and storm surge are in the upper right-hand corner. And that hit us," Barbour recalls.

Barbour is walking through a new exhibit at the state-funded Two Mississippi Museums in Jackson. It's called Hurricane Katrina: Mississippi Remembers and features photographs of the aftermath by Melody Golding.

While much of the focus marking 20 years since Hurricane Katrina is on New Orleans, where federal levees failed and flooded the