It's been 10 years since Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, killing at least 1,836 people and demolishing homes, hospitals, schools, roads and any semblance of what had existed before.

Many of the people who left in the storm's wake struggled with the decision of whether to return. Should they come back and rebuild in the place they had called home or make a new home somewhere else?

Scroll through these images to see some of what has been rebuilt in the decade since the storm.

All photos by Mario Tama/Getty Images

(Left) Robert Fontaine walks past a burning house fire in the 7th ward in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Right) Houses stand in the 7th ward in New Orleans, Louisiana.

(Left) A group of Amish student volunteers tour the devastated Ninth Ward February 24, 2006 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Right) New homes stand in a development built by the Make it Right Foundation for residents whose homes were destroyed in the Lower Ninth Ward on May 16, 2015 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

(Left) Two men paddle in high water after Hurricane Katrina devastated the area in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Right) A school bus drops off a student in front of the Claiborne Bridge in the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans, Louisiana.

(Left) A man rides in a canoe in high water after Hurricane Katrina devastated the area in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Right) A woman walks with a dog in the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans, Louisiana.

(Left) Water floods an above-ground cemetery outside Saint Patrick's Church in Plaquemines Parish in Port Sulphur, Louisiana. (Right) The cemetery outside Saint Patrick's Church stands in Plaquemines Parish in Port Sulphur, Louisiana

(Left) Workers rebuild the levee which was breached by Hurricane Katrina along the Industrial Canal in the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Right) New homes stand along the rebuilt Industrial Canal levee in the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans, Louisiana.

(Left) Stranded victims of Hurricane Katrina rest inside the Superdome, which has become a makeshift shelter for hurricane victims in New Orleans. (Right) The New Orleans Saints look on during a preseason game against the Houston Texans at the Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana.