Hurrikan Katrina: Wettlauf gegen die Zeit - Ein Sturm zieht auf - Report / Geschichte

A police car drives through the empty streets of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.

Big Chief Kevin Goodman is a cultural ambassador, coming from a family immersed in the rich traditions of the 7th Ward Black Masking Indian (also referred to as Mardi Gras Indian) culture, which blends African, Native American, and Creole influences. During Katrina, weakened from days without food and water, Goodman bravely held his months-old twin nieces in his arms as he stood in front of news cameras to report the reality of what was happening at the Convention Center. With emotional accounts of survivors and immersive archival footage, National Geographic's Hurricane Katrina: Race Against Time reveals Hurricane Katrina as a disaster that was anything but natural.

When Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005, Shelton Alexander lived in Violet, La., St. Bernard Parish. Using his video camera, he starts recording as the winds started picking up and narrates his experience over hours of footage from the Superdome - the storm as experienced inside the Dome, where thousands of people found shelter and waited for rescue. With emotional accounts of survivors and immersive archival footage, National Geographic's Hurricane Katrina: Race Against Time reveals Hurricane Katrina as a disaster that was anything but natural.

When Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005, Malik Rahim was a West Bank, an Algiers Point resident. He recounts his experience while being interviewed for the production of National Geographic's Hurricane Katrina: Race Against Time. With emotional accounts of survivors and immersive archival footage, the series reveals Hurricane Katrina as a disaster that was anything but natural.