Twenty years ago, on Aug. 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina cemented itself in history as one of the deadliest and most devastating disasters to strike the U.S.

Twenty years ago, a weather.com meteorologist was on shift the morning Hurricane Katrina made its catastrophic landfall. This is what he remembers most, both on the day of landfall and in the days before and after.

As the 20-year-anniversary of