Read time: 8 mins By Julie Dermansky • Wednesday, December 23, 2020 - 03:00
The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season had a record-breaking 30 named storms, so many that the National Hurricane Center ran through the standard list of names and moved on to the Greek alphabet with over two months of the season left. In all, 12 storms made landfall in the continental United States, with five hitting the Gulf Coast. I photographed the aftermath the destroyed homes, damaged oil and gas sites, and contaminated wetlands from four of those Gulf Coast storms, including Hurricanes Laura, Sally, Delta, and Zeta.
This selection of photos shows the devastating impact hurricanes have had primarily in Louisiana but also in Alabama and Florida, in an already difficult year beset by a pandemic and subsequent economic downturn.