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AccuWeather @accuweather.com

Hurricane Katrina made landfall 20 years ago today, with numbers that still stagger and tell the story of its catastrophic impact on New Orleans. bit.ly/3VpFjQ8

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aug 29, 2025, 1:46 pm • 27 22

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Blue Honey @devans00.bsky.social

I can’t forget how people trying to survive were treated like dangerous invaders and met with guns when they tried to reach safety. But I also remember national community help and rebuilding efforts for those impacted by Hurricane Katrina years afterwards.

aug 30, 2025, 12:16 pm • 0 1 • view
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Puget Bob @pugetbob.bsky.social

In the immortal words of Chief Dimbulb GW Bush: "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job." Less often quoted, Bush's mother Barbara, on the crowds of desperate refugees pouring into the Houston Astrodome: "I think this is working out really well for them!"

aug 29, 2025, 5:59 pm • 1 0 • view