Today marks the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, which decimated New Orleans and other communities on the Gulf Coast, leading to one of the largest and most sudden relocations of people in U.S. history.

Some 1.2 million Louisianaans were displaced for months or even years. We're going to spend some time now looking at that impact and the ways the city has

changed in the two decades since Katrina. And let's start by hearing from a few of the

thousands of Katrina survivors who relocated permanently. My name is Kelly Bolden. And before

Katrina hit, I was living in New Orleans East. and right now I live in the DFW area.

My name is Philip Falcone.

When I was in New Orleans, my family, we lived in Metteridge, suburb outside of New Orleans.

And then now post-Katrina, all these years later, live in the city of Riverside, California.

This is Stephen Lipp.

I'm living currently Riverside, California. This is Stephen Lip.

I'm living currently in Katie, Texas, and was living in

Orleans Parish, in New Orleans, Louisiana.

I'm Pat Mother Blues Cohen.

I was living in New Orleans East, where the storm hit. And I am now,

since Hurricane Katrina, I've been living in Salisbury, North Carolina. I remember my siblings

talking about, let's pack up, let's leave. This one is going to be the one.

I have no memory of anything prior to the storm. It was that sort of event. It was so all-encompassing,

so overwhelming. I was a Katrina kid, is what we say. There's a group of us that were like we were

children in the time of working Katrina. We remember, you that happened. But of course, we're not the ones calling the shots in our respective families.

Powerful Hurricane Katrina rips across the Gulf Coast. After the storm, we were watching the weather chant like 24-7, trying to figure out what's going on in the storm.

And the shock was a street corner, very close to where we lived, and there was 10 feet of water

in the street corner.

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