(ANALYSIS) Twenty years after Katrina’s landfall on Aug. 29, 2005, the hurricane remains one of the biggest disasters in American history: 1,392 deaths, and damage of about $200 billion (in 2025 dollars). This will be a week of remembrance in New Orleans. We’ll probably hear a lot about the scope of the loss and the failures in response.
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