INDIANAPOLIS — It's hard to fathom the true impact of Hurricane Katrina .

It displaced more than a million people, sending them to other states, including Indiana.

Some of them are still here.

A sisterhood that grew out of tragedy and has blossomed into triumph 20 years later.

"Who I am today, she helped lay that foundation of helping to rebuild and giving me that identity," Chasity Johnson said.

It's been a decade since Larcina Hicks and Chasity Johnson have seen each other. That time, it was the tenth anniversary of Katrina, but the connection never fades.

"If I needed something she was the person to call," Hicks said.

It was the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina that linked these women's lives together forever.

Hicks and her family arrived in Indianapolis first. They left Louisiana

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