Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina, survivors who lived through the storm as children are still reckoning with a city transformed — and the stories of loss and trauma they never got to tell. When Hurricane Katrina hit, the 13-year-old was one of the roughly 100,000 people still in New Orleans, a city in Louisiana near the US Gulf Coast. "And I don't know if they're in there or not...to this day, I still don't know," said Burks. Much of New Orleans remained underwater for weeks following Katrina Image: Vincent Laforet/AP/dpa/picture allianceAre future generations in New Orleans vulnerable to climate change? Two decades after Katrina, Mason reflected that while the trauma made him tough, it was a bitter trade-off for the levee failures that day.