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Mississippi residents Lawrence and Gillian relax on a sandbar on Waveland Beach, a town which was hard-hit by Hurricane Katrina, on August 04, 2025 in Waveland, Mississippi. The catastrophic storm sent an approximately 30-foot-high storm surge into Waveland and destroyed or damaged nearly every home in the town. New Orleans and the Gulf Coast region are preparing to mark the 20-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, which occurred on August 29, 2005. Katrina resulted in nearly 1,400 deaths, according to revised statistics from the National Hurricane Center, and remains the costliest storm in U.S. history at around $200 billion in todayÕs dollars. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
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