When Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed New Orleans and the surrounding region five years ago, hundreds of thousands of lives were changed forever, in myriad ways. Hundreds died, but even among survivors, many lost all that was familiar. And recovery is a process that still goes on day by day.
Here are three stories of survival and readjustment, by Associated Press writers who tracked down individuals they had first met in Katrina's chaotic wake.
Image: A man and child walk past a blighted home, destroyed from Hurricane Katrina and abandoned, yet next to repaired homes, five years after the storm, in the New Orleans East section of New Orleans, Sunday, Aug. 22, 2010.
Text & Images: AP
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