Aug. 29, 2025, marked the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina making landfall in Southeast Louisiana, the beginning of what would become one of the most devastating hurricanes in the history of the United States.
Katrina was eventually estimated to be responsible for more than 1,400 deaths, according to The Associated Press, to say nothing of its near-$200 billion in property damage and the exposure of infrastructure failures and slow government emergency response times that exacerbated the impact of the storm.
Reflecting on the storm's impact, Snopes collected 10 stories in the 20 years since the day of its landfall, from portrayals of looting based on race to purported satellite images of the storm.
