20 years later, the children of Katrina have grown up. Here's how the storm shaped their lives.

Cierra Chenier doesn't like to leave New Orleans.

Not after being forced out after Hurricane Katrina drowned the city. Not for too long. Not when so many family members, childhood friends and countless others moved and never found their way back.

She was 9 when Katrina turned her whole world — everyone’s world — upside down.

In the years that followed, she and thousands of other children came of age in a new kind of New Orleans where they were suddenly divorced from the neighborhoods that formed generations of identities.

"My dad grew up in the 7th Ward. You can put him anywhere on earth and he is still from the 7th Ward," said Chenier, a 29-year-old who was raised in New Orleans East until the storm, but thinks her connection to her childhood neighborhood is more fragile than her fath