India, Sept. 1 -- Communities across the Mississippi and Louisiana Gulf Coast marked 21 years since Hurricane Katrina struck over the past week, with residents in Biloxi recalling the terror of the storm even as New Orleans's Lower Ninth Ward confronts a new, multibillion-dollar federal project on the very waterway whose failure devastated the neighbourhood in 2005.

In Biloxi, Mississippi, people gathered on Saturday to reflect on the loss Katrina caused and the decades-long rebuilding process that followed, according to WLOX. In New Orleans, hundreds marched through the Lower Ninth Ward on 29 August for the annual Katrina March and Second Line, reading the names of the dead aloud before turning their attention to a proposed 4.7 billion ...