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Resilience in New Orleans: 10 Years After Katrina

In August 2005 Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf region -- and left most of the city of New Orleans underwater. It was America's costliest natural disaster, and left 1,833 people dead. New Orleans is slowly getting back on its feet, but some of the poorest areas are still marked by abandoned properties and lost livelihoods. Getty Images photojournalist Mario Tama has visited the city countless times over the past decade to document its recovery, and the resilience of its people

(Photo: Survivor Robert Green, who lost his mother and granddaughter during Hurricane Katrina, in front of his new home in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, May 2015. Credit: MARIO TAMA/Getty Images)

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