It is hard to believe we are already upon the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina which was officially classified as one five years ago today. It took another week before it wrecked havoc on the gulf coast where things still are not back to normal in placed she hit. Tonight at 9:00 the National Geographic Channel is taking a look back at the storm literally through the eyes of people who lived through it with Witness: Katrina.
All of the footage show will come from those on the scene from amateur cameramen documenting how they try to live through the storm throughout the Gulf Coast (but mostly focusing on New Orleans), filming as water rises above their waste, walls getting blown down and even the Superdome falling around them. The footage ranges over seventy-two hours of the storm starting with a bunch of hippies mocking at how un-scary a hurricane named Katrina sounds to hours after the storm passes as we join residents trying to rescue their neighbors who stayed with their house.
It is good they the show stays in first person for just the prelude, the storm, and in immediate aftermath so the special isn’t bogged down with the finger pointing, celebrities getting stuck in a boat or dudes with the nickname Brownie that came afterward, just an unfiltered account of real people in the path of the hurricane. The only addenda we get are an update of how the videographers are doing today. Check out a preview of Witness: Katrina below.
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