I watched this unfold on TV as a little kid and couldn’t believe what I was seeing. Big part of the reason why I am a meteorologist today.

Back when the weather channel wasn't clickbait and reality shows

Classic local on the 8s, the storm theme, jim cantore... this is peak weather channel.

The Weather Channel BEFORE NBC bought it.

I remember that local on the 8's music sounded really ominous while this was going on. When it starts playing at 0:23 it still kind of feels the same as it did.

It doesn't feel like 12 years ago but man look how dated weather channel graphics are lol

0:24 15 years later, and this is still the music I think of when I think of major hurricanes hitting.

I was between 11 or 12 years old sitting at home in South Florida watching this unfold the whole day. I had went to sleep night before when it was a cat 2. Then I woke up to a cat 5 a few hours later and I didin't know what to say.

Im crying right now actually... I remember I was watching this with my mom, as she gave us the run down on what a Category 5 could do... I remember where I was.. I was in my Kitchen preparing my items...Jesus how long has it been...

I was 14 years old when Katrina hit. Man, how I remember 2005, freshman year of high school.

I'm 29, started watching the weather Channel when I was 9 so around 2002, I miss this golden Era of this channel.

I live in Baton Rouge and I have family that stayed in the Superdome throughout the whole ordeal. They said the smell was horrible

I'll never forget the day before. It was sunny beautiful Sunday, mom was cooking, I was doing chores and on TV was a massive cat 5 hurricane creeping up on Louisiana. My area wasn't affected very much as we were on the left side of the storm.

I was at band camp in Fort Worth during this. I remember we got a lot of new students from SE Louisiana that joined the band at this time. So nostalgic. I also remember watching this exact broadcast while I got ready to go to camp. Insane.

I was 15 years old when this occurred. I live in northern Alabama and we just got a lot of rain and some gusty wind. I felt so bad for the residents of coastal Louisiana and New Orleans. Watched a lot of Weather Channel and other news stations covering the situation as it was unfolding. Scary days those were.

It would be nice if TWC went back to this style or used the old storm alert music for modern day storms.

I remember getting the EAS alert. The most scary Hurricane I've ever experienced. The damage of the Hurricane didn't scare me, it was how quickly it grew in strength. When this Hurricane was first announced, it was only a category 3 Hurricane, which is still powerful. Then, in a single night, it strengthened into a category 5 Hurricane. The fact that it grew in strength so quickly scared me.

Doesn’t feel like 15 years ago.. I still remember it ..

This was the last thing I remember seeing on TV before the power went. For context I was in south Gulfport at landfall.

The season was pretty devastating that year.

It so surreal seeing them say stuff like “its approaching” and what not Before anybody know that it was gonna be the most costly storm in us history

Wish TWC would bring back this great music to the Local on the 8s. If I ever hit the lottery big I'd buy TWC and fix it up to the way it used to be.

I was living in Ocean Springs right on the MS coast at this time! Mom probably still has the video we shot while at home. We rode it out as we were quite a bit above sea level on our half of the neighborhood. An experience I will never forget! Actually still remember watching this exact footage live! Weird to so vividly remember seeing the projected path cones like it was yesterday!

Ida is another one of the big storms. Katrina, Andrew, and Ida. My top 3 hurricanes of the US

Hurricane Katrina was the reason my grandma and I found and started watching the Weather Channel. We lived in the Great Lakes and got the remains of the storm it rained for a few days. I was like 7 I remember my grandma saying I hope they found Jesus cause if they didn’t get out of there. They might meet him let’s hope not.

“And now for your local on the 8s” *boss music starts playing*

"Don't let your guard down" _Thanks..._

*Since I was a little kid back when Katrina arrived. I'm proud that I lived in Maryland when it happened.*

Crazy how they totally downplayed the potential damage to come in Mississippi. They don’t even acknowledge how much worst the east side of a hurricane is.

Not only is Today the 16th Anniversary of Katrina, but guess what's also happening? Ida is gonna make landfall. Shocking, huh?

0:23 I like this theme local of the 8s

We didn't see much rain where I live at in KY, but we actually had enough wind from the down graded Depression Katrina to lose power for a day.

I was 5 years old with my sisters and the babysitter, i remember quite a lot of how dangerous the storm was and how it was going to move north where I was in MN. Even though it died out once it moved north, I will always remember this storm. My babysitters name was Katrina too, so that name is always going to be special for me.

the song is called, storm alert

Hurricane Katrina had sustained winds of 125 miles per hour when it made landfall in southeast Louisiana on August 29, 2005.

Gives me chills everytime I see this. I’m from the delta of Mississippi.. I remember Katrina like it was yesterday

you knew shit was about to go down whenever your heard the Storm Alert soundtrack.

We were in a hotel in Diamondhead MS, a half-mile from the water. Hotel set up on a bluff and waves crashed over the interstate...Mississippi coast lost 70,000 homes,, with 200,000 ppl homeless. Surge was 12 ft 15 miles inland..... by 6:30 no power, gusts and noise..

I was a baby when this happened. About 6 months old. We lived in Florida. Katrina just barely missed us (we lived in the Tampa area) We got a good amount of rain, but nothing too severe. Sad for those who were affected though.

13 years ago today.... Doesn’t even feel that long.

I was in myrtle beach for a vacation with my parents during katrina. I was only 2 years old at the time. We were not affected though. My mom said she remembers watching live coverage of katrina on TWC during the times when red flags were put on the lifeguard stands which meant the ocean is rough. The reason why she watched TWC coverage of katrina was that she wanted to see how bad the damage was going to be.

The damage from that hurricane was old testament biblical in Biloxi, MS. My military unit was one of the first to deploy down there for cleanup and setting up temporary comms - and I couldn't believe the destruction I saw from Katrina...

And Ida crashes the 16th anniversary!🌀

16 years later now I'm waiting on IDA

I evacuated to a relative's house with other friends and family. We had a lot of MREs after that. I emailed all my friends to see if they were ok. (They were!) And my cousin set up my Myspace account. Weird times.

i remember i was 6 1/2 years old and my sister had been born just 2 months earlier when this happened. i remember watching this coverage on tv

I remember the storm from Kentucky. It was enough of a stronghold that it knocked the power off in the Southern end of the county. We had to get lunch from the north end of town.

I remember walking outside and having to hold on to my mom’s hands just to not fly away

I live in Florida I remember watching this on the news with my parents my cousins live in New Orleans and they there home got hit by the hurricane

In Tampa watching Ida, just like I was watching Katrina 16 years ago...

Incredible music.

Man Jim Cantore has been at TWC forever. He was just in Naples, FL for Irma

Hard to believe this was 17 years ago I was only 12 then

Anyone else get this in their recommendations during Hurricane Laura?

I remember actually watching this. Nostalgia. Katrina was nasty. I didn't realize it was 15 years. I was 11 when that happened...

Hurricane Katrina was a awesome storm did a lot of damage along the Louisiana and Mississippi coast line prayers and prayers and prayers

As of tomorrow, this will have been exactly 15 years ago.

The beginning literally sounds like I'm playing a Mega Man game. I love it

I was in my former auto shop in Syracuse New York watching this storm unfold and we tuned our NOAA Weather Radio to the National Weather Service in New Orleans issuing a hurricane warning for the state of Louisiana and the Gulf Coast of Mississippi on September 11th 2005 we had a national response team callout to New Orleans Louisiana because not only that hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans but also a number of EF5 tornadoes hit New Orleans as well so we responded from Syracuse New York to New Orleans Louisiana and got there within a few days and we head into the French Quarter and we see numerous amounts of damage from the storm and we knew people’s lives were totaled and that the survivors were buried underneath the rubble with the lost lives from all the homes totaled and leveled by the storm so we immediately took action and got to work right away and we used our saws as well as our pry bars to cut and pry away the broken pieces of wood as well as broken pieces of plaster and concrete to find the dead bodies and the survivors and after 5 hours of digging we found the survivors and pulled them to safety but we had a long 10 months of finding everyone that was still alive when they were buried underneath the rubble on every block around New Orleans and then we found the other survivors but we couldn’t find the deceased bodies because of how deep they were buried under the pile after 10 months of digging and searching we identified these dead bodies and did some DNA testing and analysis and found out who these people were and where they were from we then saw a set of wings badge and an identification card that had a name but I’m not gonna leak out his name since this dead person didn’t want his name leaked out to anyone that’s younger and wasn’t around at the time and we found out he was a captain of American Airlines and so we identified him by the name on his identification card and then we did a background check on this deceased man but found nothing except his recent jobs he was at before aviation school we found multiple deceased cops from the New Orleans Police Department and we identified these officers and we went to FEMA and they found more information about these late individuals and they found out about their past such as medical and mental and even criminal since some of the individuals were in the penitentiary not far from the French Quarter and so we then spent a few days or even a few months trying to rebuild the city of New Orleans and we got somewhere so on December 23rd 2006 we left New Orleans and headed back to Syracuse New York same idea for when Sandy had slammed the East Coast and caused major damage

This is from The Weather Channel's master feed.

Katrina's sister Ida is on the way. Prayers up!

I remember watching this storm on TV

When this program aired I was in my house 45 miles south of New Orleans and floating down the street in it. Sun was up and the eye passed over about an hour later. An exciting night to say the least.

I know someone who said they had to stay on their roof during the hurricane bc the storm surge was so bad and flooding was high

I was born not even a year before and I just realizing the size of this monster compared to ida

The music at the beginning was nice

Hurricane Ida 2021 forecast looks identical on the anniversary of Katrina..

This is landfall and 150 mph winds but witch is almost cat 5 but now a days they say made landfall mph winds were 125

I lived in Florida when I was so young, Hurricane Wilma Destroyed our home there

I was so sad as a kid when the weather channel changed their logo.

I’m here because of delta

I was 15 years old when this monsters hit biloxi and left nothing but slabs.

Wow cool! Hard to wrap my head around this being FIFTEEN WHOLE YEARS OLD. :/ I'm gonna be 27 soon. It's like wow I'm ancient now.

I feel old now

These were the days

my weather is almost the exact same as the forecast for my city

Was only 16 when this happened couldn't beleive what I seen on TV

I really miss them using licensed music for the local on the 8s.

I remember Katrina and how the weather reporters were commenting on how odd it was that it was rotating in a clockwise direction this far north of the equator. They went on and on about that oddity and were very shocked. By the way, it was in the Gulf of Mexico at the time. Then after a break, they stopped talking about it and it was shown rotating counter-clockwise. I have been searching ever since for anyone that recorded it but have come up dry. I will never stop searching though since it was also very odd to me that it spun clockwise and then how they flipped the image. Did anyone else witness that as well and if so did you happen to record it. If you did, please share it with me so I can stop searching and lay it to rest.

7pm the evening of 8-28-05 in Chalmette a Friend of mind passed over after telling him 2 days prior I was staying, so we went outside an he pulls out a joint an I took maybe 4 hits, it turned out to be the worst thing I could have done, I got paranoid because everything seemed 10 times more intense... by 9pm I felt normally again... By 10:30AM I'm sitting on the tip of my damn roof,,, Then around 7pm that evening on Monday that's when I started fighting off the snakes off my roof...

"2020 is the new 2005"

I remember this storm.

The nostalgia

They should obviously bring that storm work music back

Nearly 15 years later Laura would come.

Happy music in a sad situation.

The forecast music sounds like GTA V loading screen music

I remember leaving for Hurricane Katrina. We traveled almost every in Louisiana looking for a hotel. No luck. We had to sleep in the truck. It was so uncomfortable for weeks. When I came back to my house in Harvey, parts of the roof caved in. I lost so much of my clothes, my bed, and my dresser. That stuff can be replaced. The only thing that broke my heart into a billion pieces was that I had to leave my cats. I gave them one last hug and told I'm sorry. I still live with that regret to this day!

you can barely see my man in MS and people still act like the storm itself was worse in LA. flooding was worse because of the sea level and nothing holding it back.

I was 8 years old watching the hurricane slamming Louisiana Mississippi and Alabama

And 16 years later on the day Ida makes landfall

Shit still hurts smh...

15 years ago today.

Damn thats a huge Tornado warning My god

its been 15 years

I was two when this happened. I almost feel like I remember it though. Maybe I did 🧐

that's when my mom and dad first met each other back in 2005

That was in 2005

17 years ago

People often forget about Mississippi