Jennifer Trivedi, University of Delaware

Biloxi's 15-Year Recovery From Hurricane Katrina Offers Lessons for Other Coastal Cities

08.28.2020 12:00 PM

The one-two punch of tropical storms Marco and Laura along the U.S. Gulf coast eerily echoes Hurricane Katrina’s arrival 15 years ago, on August 29, 2005. Katrina, which caused some US$170 billion in damages, remains the most costly storm in U.S. history.

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