And once that happened, it was a losing battle after that." Osborne said they lost everything when Hurricane Katrina came through New Orleans in 2005. "You just do the best you can do," he said.

Developers are tearing down the Six Flags amusement complex in New Orleans two decades after it was decimated during Hurricane Katrina.

Videos showed the dark funnel cloud ploughing through neighbourhoods on Tuesday night, blowing off rooftops and overturning cars. It hit suburbs that were devastated by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.