Sixteen years ago today Hurricane Katrina made landfall in New Orleans as a Category 3 hurricane. Today Hurricane Ida has strengthened into a life-threatening Category 4 storm, and is still intensifying as it nears Louisiana.

Dawn breaks over the Katrina memorial at Shell Beach on the 16th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina as Hurricane Ida approaches the Louisiana coast in St. Bernard, La. Saturday, Aug. 28, 2021. (Photo by Max Becherer, NOLA.com, The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate)