Today marks the 17th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina making landfall in Louisiana. The storm hit as a Category 3, and numerous levees in New Orleans failed, causing catastrophic flooding of the city. In all, Katrina was the costliest U.S. hurricane and sadly took the lives of over 1,800 people. | WeatherNation

20 years ago, Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Louisiana and Mississippi, killing hundreds of people and flooding New Orleans, where the devastating storm breached levees. Since then, the city has spent more than $14 billion on a better flood protection system, which includes the world’s largest pump station, blocking storm surge form the Gulf and pumping rainwater away from the city. Still, the man who heads the organization running the complex says his team is “continuously working to make i