
20 years after Hurricane Katrina: How NZ can learn from disaster response
From The Front Page
Published 8/28/2025

From The Front Page
Published 8/28/2025
20 years on, and the devastation left behind by Hurricane Katrina is still being felt. The category three hurricane made landfall on August 29, 2005 devastating parts of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama – with New Orleans suffering catastrophic flooding due to levee failures. About 80% of…