Posted on Aug 29, 2021
Hurricane Katrina: 10 Facts About the Deadly Storm and Its Legacy
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Check out the photos at the link. Let's pray the levees hold this time.
Hurricane Katrina, the tropical cyclone that struck the Gulf Coast in August 2005, was the third-strongest hurricane to hit the United States in its history at the time. With maximum sustained winds of 175 mph, the storm killed a total of 1,833 people and left millions homeless in New Orleans and along the Gulf Coast of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.
The heavy death toll of the hurricane and the subsequent flooding it caused drew international attention, along with widespread and lasting criticism of how local, state and federal authorities handled the storm and its aftermath.
Hurricane Katrina, the tropical cyclone that struck the Gulf Coast in August 2005, was the third-strongest hurricane to hit the United States in its history at the time. With maximum sustained winds of 175 mph, the storm killed a total of 1,833 people and left millions homeless in New Orleans and along the Gulf Coast of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.
The heavy death toll of the hurricane and the subsequent flooding it caused drew international attention, along with widespread and lasting criticism of how local, state and federal authorities handled the storm and its aftermath.
Hurricane Katrina: 10 Facts About the Deadly Storm and Its Legacy
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Lt Col Charlie Brown That was a bad storm indeed. I think only Hurricane Andrew might have been worse.
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God help them if those levies don't hold, I don't think they handle another Katrina, an Ida is still building.
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People in Louisiana were warned for years that this was going to happen, a lot of New Orleans is actually below sea level. This one approaching now may do the dame thing because of the storm surge.
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