LELAND, NC (WWAY) — Friday marks 20 years since Hurricane Katrina roared ashore along the Gulf Coast, forever changing the landscape and countless lives.
Katrina made landfall near Grand Isle, Louisiana as a category 3 hurricane with sustained winds of 125 miles per hour in the early morning hours of August 29, 2005. It made a second landfall a short time later along the Mississippi and Louisiana border.
The forecast just a few days before called for Katrina to pass safely to the east of the impacted region. But Wilmington resident Jeff Maumus says that quickly changed leading up to landfall…