Archives of news coverage like this need to be more common. I love watching old coverage on weather events.

When James Spann's suspenders are visible, shit is getting real.

James Spann when the jacket comes off and you see the suspenders you are in deep doodoo..... I love James Spann the weather man!!

Wow this has a really 90s look to it.

A huge portion of the coverage was missed. It cut off early Sunday morning on the 28th and picked up later that evening for the 5 pm news. The cut off early that morning when Katrina exploded all of a sudden from 115 mph sustained winds to up to 175 mph. That's when when I decided to pack up whatever I could fit in my car and get the hell out of there, being in the direct path of it.

I was 10 years old when that storm made landfall. I'm 20 years old now and I will never forget going head on with that storm. Living in South Louisiana in Terrebonne Parish, it was crazy to experience something soooo deadly like Hurricane Katrina and her aftermath.

Still amazes me to watch and see this hurricane blowup in the gulf into one of the most terrifying storms i have seen ... 2005 really got me watching hurricane season every year from afar .2004 is when I started watching hurricane season every year and I've been doing it ever since. this will be my 16th year this year in 2020. It might seem corny but I am kind of a hurricane chaser I just do it from home. I think I like the adrenaline rush I get when I see a hurricane coming. I don't like the bad things they do but I'm still always dazzled by the sheer power of these storms spiraling about

Rode this storm out in Baton Rouge Louisiana and then drove through the backside to the Superdome in a ambulance. By the next morning we, along with about 30 other ambulances, were stuck up on I-10 watching the water rise and helicopters dropping people on the interstate with us. We were stuck just like everyone else for days! I'll never forget this storm.

the only thing that kept crossing my mind before hurricane Katrina hit was WOW ! The eye of that storm is HUGE!!!

I remember this, there were kids that came to my high school in florida temporarily that were affected by hurricane katrina. I felt bad for them...

Still nothing has come close to this for us. The eye came directly over my city and the coast has never been the same since. Locals find themselves saying a lot, "yeah before Katrina...and now" Its a phrase that anyone who has been through a bad hurricane knows and never seems to stop saying.

Out of all the coverage I’ve seen James do, this is the first time I’ve seen him in a jacket

14yrs later I'm seeing coverage from 14yrs ago on a post that was posted 5 yrs ago..

No one was concerned about the land mass between Louisiana and Alabama. That would be Mississippi. Where the hurricane really caused destruction. As opposed to the man made disaster in NOLA.

Hurricane Camille was the worst I'd ever seen.....until Katrina 😳

biloxi resident: I hope there’s not too much damage *biloxi gets so much damage*

Those poor souls. 😔

I attended a relief effort in Mississippi a month or so after the storm hit and let me tell you what you never realize how many toilets were in a area until you see carnage like that. Also went into New Orleans and saw the damage there. It was crazy to say the least

The way it cuts off at 26:48 reminds me of group projects in grade school

The wife worked at a Murphy's gas in front of a Walmart in Biloxi when the storm came through. She came back to a resurfaced beachfront. The MS coast got the worst part of that storm but was forgotten due to it being Soo close to the larger cities. News papers after that for a while called it 'The Forgotten Coast'

South Mississippi here things still aren’t as good as they were before Katrina a lot of people evacuated and never came back

Man... All that warning.

James was wearing a jacket so rare 😮

I was only 12 when this disaster took place, and I still vividly remember everything. And I live in Ohio

I remember watching this

I was only a couple months old during this looool

6:42...gas station owner admits to price gouging and the public bends over and accepts it.

My wife and I just got home from our honeymoon the Monday before. So I turn on the tv and for Some reason it was on the Weather Channel and saw the storm. I look at her and say honey don't bother unpacking in fact we need to back more. She had this look on her face like WTF and I just pointed to Katrina. I had to go in the next day to work and I'll never forget the line that formed at the Shell near the Causeway. And almost on the hour a person would run out and change the price. It started I wanna say at 1.15 a gallon. By the time I left it was well over 5 dollars a gallon. So we ended up leaving at like 3am Thursday morning cause my boss called and said it's on track to reach Slidell Friday. So we packed up our pets and our bags and headed out. But I forgot to turn the water in our townhouse off.. If I had done that the most damage we would have had was a few random mold spots. Instead our downstairs bathroom over flowed and completely soaked not only our place but out next door neighbors too. And I had complained about the toilet overflowing a few times before to our land lord. Nothing happened and luckily it was just water and not sewage. The scariest thing I saw was that the entire middle complex had a huge hole in it clean from once side to the other. It looked like someone shot a cannon ball and it hit and just kept going. It broke my heart because that townhouse felt like okay this it the place. So many first's happened thier and now as each year passes my mind slips just a bit more...And I am starting to forget some of those first's...

They always leave out my beautiful Hancock county Ms. Ground Zero for Katrina. ❤ Hidden Paradise.

Still by far the worst thing i have ever been through. Im still traumatized and start uncontrollably shaking when i even hear thunder now. I have a phobia of all storms

If it hadn't took that last minute jog slightly to the East. New Orleans probably wouldn't have even recovered no where near as quickly as they did even though the water flooded the city especially on its east side.

Freshman in high school when this happened. Remember going back to school when my own house had no electricity and meeting new evacuees from NO schools.

James spann is a legend

That was such a weird path that It took, what was the high trough like when it was taking that path?

Probably won’t ever be another storm like this is the US. More powerful storms will come but thanks to new technology and better warnings partly thanks to this storm we’ll never get caught by surprise like this ever again.

Valarie Carter is now Valarie Lawson . She's with WSFA in Montgomery.

As I watch this, I think to myself "All of those people who didn't make it in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama as it was headed their way. Man! Reality check."

Little of chance of developing into a category 5, lol. Boy that guy felt stupid afterwards !

James Spann's clothing routine: Full suit: Normal day. No worries for now. Full shirt and suspenders: Better take cover. This may get serious. No shirt and suspenders: May God have mercy on your soul.

Lived in Louisiana during this time. I remember watching this witch come in and then a month later we got hit with Rita. Never forget that year

HEB food stores sent volumes of employees to help those who would not help themselves.

How many of them lived through this?

+Dιsηεγ Ρπιηςεss Ταγδπα, it all depends on where you live. If you live in the Tuscaloosa area, over the air, it's 33.1. If you live in Anniston, over the air, it's 40.1.

I remeber when this happened. I live right by New Orleans and everything was destroyed

Well.... I WAS BORN THAT DAY

I hope Tampa is okay

Lol "the Alabama+Mississippi line"

Mother Nature Rules Everything.

I was almost 16

I lived through this and it was not fun

Wasn't Brian Peters a NASCAR Commentator?

The Mississippi Coast Was Hit Insanely Hard By Katrina Only New Orleans Was Hit That Bad In Louisana

small chance...

LOL, two channel numbers!! Which do I watch??

Someones middle name is Katrina.

West at 715mph!!! 1:15

"Bush had a weather machine that steered it right up into New Orleans." - Rush Limbaugh The national news only reported on New Orleans, they barely talked about the MS Gulf Coast, which bore the brunt of it. New Orleans was located on the "good" side, the left side, west side. New Orleans had 90 mph winds, Category 1. MS coast, Category 3. Bush got all the blame, as much blame with this hurricane as he did with the 2003 Iraq war. New Orleans mayor and Louisiana governor did nothing to evacuate people from the areas of New Orleans that are below sea level, and most prone to life-threatening flooding. Levees were in poor condition, that even the weaker side caused them to breach.

hurricane

How about hurricane Irma

Boobs bring hurricanes! Du dum tss! Lol😂

The guy at 31:44 looks kind of like Bradley cooper

When It made landfall i was 6days old

Its weird to yell run at a video

21:25 pov: TIV 2

I was born in 2009 and hurricane Katrina was at 2005

At that time I was starting to pack my gear for an extended duty run as Mobile Fire Rescue got ready. At that time I was guardian, and protector of a staff pit named Pete. As I was known for bringing Petey with me everywhere but the head cheeses said NO PETS at stations. Pete didn't care to be left alone and people who offered to let him stay with them found that Petey wanted to be with me. I went back and got him and headed in. It turned out that Pedro was popular with all the guys in station.and the chief at my station said he wouldn't have thought much of me if I left him at home. Petey passed on Friday April 4 2008 at 8:04 am. I still miss my boy. By the way Camille in Aug. 69 had baro pressure of .900 minibars. stronger than Katrina.

Why not the same meteorologist throughout? 🤔...🤮

Not deeper than Hurricane Camille