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NEW ORLEANS — It’s been 20 years since Hurricane Katrina slammed the Gulf Coast as a Category 3 storm. The disaster is remembered not just for its winds, but for the crushing surge of water that devastated rural Louisiana parishes and tore through the heart of New Orleans.

Katrina weakened before making landfall on Aug. 29, 2005, but still struck the Louisiana-Mississippi border as a Category 3 storm . The storm surge flooded homes, took more than a thousand lives and turned reality into a nightmare along the Gulf Coast.

Memories from Louisiana

In Plaquemines Parish, seven-year-old Corrine English lost nearly everything when the small fishing town of Buras was swallowed by floodwaters.

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