20 years ago, our nation watched a city drown.

New Orleans is getting hit very hard.

A lot of objects flying through the air here, including things like siding.

Incredible, incredible amount of water coming in with this.

Wind's been gusting 100 to 20 miles an hour in some cases.

Just a howling screeching.

We almost make your ears pop a little bit.

Hurricane Katrina was the deadliest storm in American history.

To wake up the next morning and hear that, you see this is just gone, it was a shock.

I lost everything. Everybody in my family lost everything.

There was military helicopters overhead. All the street lights were still out.

It was eerie.

It just was kind of this like odd post-apocalyptic kind of feel.

So I turned on my little 13-inch black and white TV.

I heard Bob Brick say something to the effect that like if people don't leave,

there won't be enough body bags.

The stormed around homes, neighborhoods, entire communities.

It swept away the city's schools.

Gone, too, were the rituals and traditions that connected generations. How do you

rebuild the city without its schools? Where the schools went is a new podcast from the branch in

partnership with the 74 and Midas Touch. It's the story of what happens when an entire school

system disappears and a city is forced to start over.

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