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This is the story of a brutal coastal hurricane turned cataclysmic through human error and neglect. Over the course of a gripping and emotional three episodes, the people of New Orleans recount their past, extoll their present and lean into the future of what they and their beloved city survived and have become 20 years later. The series sets the stage for a tragedy - whose man-made elements expose the systemic governmental neglect that led to the city being defenseless in the face of the storm - and Katrina’s devastating impact that changed New Orleans irreparably. Detailed, harrowing and triumphant first-person accounts and never before seen archive illustrate the magnitude of Katrina, the aftermath of the levees breaking and the bungled recovery.

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00:00Before the storm came, me and my cousin, we ride our bikes through the Trumet area.
00:08It never crossed my mind that would be my last bike ride in my community.
00:19Hurricane Katrina is now a Category 5 storm.
00:23They've built the levee system now to withstand a Category 3.
00:30I woke up.
00:33My neighborhood had 20 feet of water.
00:39I put my first granddaughter on the roof, turned around to get her two sisters, and she fell into the water and disappeared.
00:49We survived Katrina.
00:51When them levees broke, that's what did us in.
00:57The government's levees failed, and they left us.
01:02And to say that clear, they left us.
01:06Federal, state, and local officials just were completely unprepared for something they knew was going to happen.
01:12We predicted that people would be trapped in their homes.
01:16I couldn't live.
01:1820,000 people showed up at the Superdome.
01:21We didn't have any food, any water.
01:23The governor said that she's ordered our National Guard to shoot, to kill if somebody's looting.
01:29I'm not sure if you call that looting. I call that survival.
01:32The American people only knew what they saw on television.
01:36TV news loves a crime story more than anything else.
01:41We were treated as criminals.
01:44Why are these people holding us against our will in here?
01:48You can look and see that this shit was racial.
01:52Is anybody going to come help us?
01:54We're a part of a culture that we want a hero.
01:56There's no blueprint for 80% of a major city being underwater.
01:59There's no blueprint for that.
02:0220 years later, this shit is still real.
02:0520 years to life, the time should fit the crime.
02:08Human lives cut down and out, left in waters to rot.
02:1320 years to life, and my stomach still holds a knot.
02:26So that would be all a metal part.
02:27Something like that is.
02:28Getting a joke.
02:29The type of infection.
02:30The city is still alive.
02:31It's absolutely impossible.
02:32That's right.
02:33It's a real thing.
02:34In which the city has been dispersed.
02:35The city has been abandoned until the city.
02:36The city has been abandoned at home.
02:37The city can only see that.
02:38The city is willing to go.
02:39The city has been abandoned for the city.
02:40The city has been abandoned.
02:41It's still alive.
02:43It's a real problem.
02:44We really have been abandoned for the city to run.
02:46The city has been abandoned for the city to ask for the city.
02:48So this is my favorite place.
02:51It's a real reason for the city to be a VOX site.
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