19 years ago today, Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Louisiana as a Category 3 hurricane.
While wind impacts were severe, levee breaches and failures brought catastrophic flooding.
This was a special message transmitted by the local National Weather Service two days before:
@MyRadar
Welcome to the new normal.
@MyRadar 💔
Here's a shot from NASA's Moderate Resolution Spectroradiometer (MODIS) from the Terra satellite right after the special statement from the NWS: