Colorado Matters host Chandra Thomas Whitfield shares her New Orleans family’s Hurricane Katrina story for the 20th anniversary

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Chandra is seen standing in front of a house holding two framed photos of her family members.
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Colorado Matters host Chandra Thomas Whitfield poses in 2010, in front of her grandparents' New Orleans area home, flooded by Hurricane Katrina exactly 20 years ago.


Colorado Matters spoke with four Hurricane Katrina survivors who now call Colorado home. Read their stories below: