New Orleans after Katrina: then and now

August 29th marks the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, which killed at least 1,836 people and is considered the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history. Devastation was widespread throughout the city with water approximately 12 feet high in some areas. Hundreds were feared dead and thousands were left homeless in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida by the storm. Getty Images photographer, Mario Tama, takes a look back at New Orleans, revisiting locations he photographed ten years earlier.

Photographs by Mario Tama/Getty Images


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