Katrina remembered
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Katrina made landfall with Louisiana on August 29, 2005. At least 1,836 people lost their lives in the storm and the floods that followed. Property valued at $81bn was destroyed. Above: Flooding caused by overwhelmed levees on the Mississippi, two weeks after the hurricane. Photo: David J Phillip
In pictures: Five years ago on this day Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans








