Hurricane Katrina
HURRICANE KATRINA
Hurricane Katrina was one of the deadliest hurricanes ever to hit the United States. Hurricane Katrina started out as any other hurricane, as the result of warm moisture and air from the oceans surface that built into storm clouds and pushed around by strong forceful winds until it became a powerful storm. Hurricane Katrina formed over the Bahamas on August 23, 2005 and crossed southern Florida as a moderate Category 1 hurricane, causing some deaths and flooding there before strengthening rapidly in the Gulf of Mexico. The hurricane strengthened to a Category 5 hurricane over the warm Gulf water, but weakened before making its second landfall as a Category 3 hurricane on the morning of Monday, August 29 in southeast Louisiana.
Hurricane Katrina was the most costly hurricane in history. This hurricane caused $81 billion in property damages, but it is estimated that the total economic impact in Louisiana and Mississippi may exceed $150 billion. Hurricane Katrina earn ed the title of costliest hurricane ever in US history. It flooded 80 percent of New Orleans and destroyed more than 100,000 homes. An estimated 80 percent of New Orleans was under water and up to 20 feet deep in some places. Hurricane Katrina was so powerful that it impacted about 90,000 square miles. In New Orleans, the levees were designed for Category 3, but Katrina peaked at a Category 5 hurricane, with winds up to 175 miles per hour. Nearly 2,000 people was killed by Hurricane Katrina and the flooding that followed in late August 2005, and millions of others were left homeless along the Gulf Coast and in New Orleans, which experienced the highest death toll. The death toll was at 1,836 from Louisiana (1,577) and Mississippi (238). 705 people are reported as still missing as a result of hurricane Katrina and it also affected over 15 million people in different factors such as economy, evacuations, gas prices and drinking water.
The storm surge from Katrina was 20-feet
Hurricane Katrina was one of the deadliest hurricanes ever to hit the United States. Hurricane Katrina started out as any other hurricane, as the result of warm moisture and air from the oceans surface that built into storm clouds and pushed around by strong forceful winds until it became a powerful storm. Hurricane Katrina formed over the Bahamas on August 23, 2005 and crossed southern Florida as a moderate Category 1 hurricane, causing some deaths and flooding there before strengthening rapidly in the Gulf of Mexico. The hurricane strengthened to a Category 5 hurricane over the warm Gulf water, but weakened before making its second landfall as a Category 3 hurricane on the morning of Monday, August 29 in southeast Louisiana.
Hurricane Katrina was the most costly hurricane in history. This hurricane caused $81 billion in property damages, but it is estimated that the total economic impact in Louisiana and Mississippi may exceed $150 billion. Hurricane Katrina earn ed the title of costliest hurricane ever in US history. It flooded 80 percent of New Orleans and destroyed more than 100,000 homes. An estimated 80 percent of New Orleans was under water and up to 20 feet deep in some places. Hurricane Katrina was so powerful that it impacted about 90,000 square miles. In New Orleans, the levees were designed for Category 3, but Katrina peaked at a Category 5 hurricane, with winds up to 175 miles per hour. Nearly 2,000 people was killed by Hurricane Katrina and the flooding that followed in late August 2005, and millions of others were left homeless along the Gulf Coast and in New Orleans, which experienced the highest death toll. The death toll was at 1,836 from Louisiana (1,577) and Mississippi (238). 705 people are reported as still missing as a result of hurricane Katrina and it also affected over 15 million people in different factors such as economy, evacuations, gas prices and drinking water.
The storm surge from Katrina was 20-feet