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Photos: Hurricane Katrina remembered 12 years later

Photos: Hurricane Katrina remembered 12 years later
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<p>People come out of their homes to a flooded street after Hurricane Katrina hit the area with heavy wind and rain August 29, 2005 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Katrina was down graded to a category 4 storm as it approached New Orleans.</p>
Photos: Hurricane Katrina remembered 12 years later
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As Texas deals with historic, aggressive flooding following Hurricane Harvey, the nation remembers Hurricane Katrina's devastation 12 years ago.

Katrina hit New Orleans, Louisiana on Aug. 29, 2005. it was the costliest natural disaster on record in the United States. More than 1,200 people died because of Hurricane Katrina.

See photos of the aftermath of Katrina.

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