MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) — Hurricane Katrina struck Louisiana on Monday, Aug. 29, 2005, leaving destruction across the Gulf Coast and changing New Orleans forever.
Dr. Courtney Jackson, who was 19 at the time, recalled the moment water began rushing into her grandmother’s home after the levees failed.
“We never experienced anything like this before,” Jackson said. “Then all of a sudden, I remember my uncle saying that the water is coming on the steps. And I’m like, ‘What he is talking about,’ and water was coming in fast, fast, fast. It was so fast we didn’t know what to do.”…