SEARCY, Ark. – Tommy Centola and his wife always evacuated their home ahead of hurricanes in Louisiana — but Hurricane Katrina was a different kind of storm.

They left and came to the Searcy area. Now, 20 years later, they call it home.

"I lived in Gretna, which is a suburb of New Orleans on the west bank of the river all our lives," Centola said. "Until the 29th of August 2005."

That day changed lives forever, Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Gulf Coast 20 years ago.

"It's hard to believe, it's very hard to believe that it has been that long," Centola said.

For Tommy and his wife, evacuating from their home in Gretna was second nature whenever a hurricane approached.

"Usually, you're gone a day or two and then you come back, we were in Shreveport when we realized this was goin

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