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Hurricane katrina aftermath new orleans11/8/2023 ![]() ![]() The flooding also destroyed most of New Orleans's transportation and communication facilities, leaving tens of thousands of people who did not evacuate the city prior to landfall with little access to food, shelter, and other basic necessities. Eventually, 80% of the city, as well as large areas in neighboring parishes, were flooded for weeks. The majority of the loss of lives in Hurricane Katrina was due to flooding caused by fatal engineering flaws in the flood protection system, specifically the levee, around the city of New Orleans. The storm strengthened into a Category 5 hurricane over the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico before weakening to a high-end Category 3 hurricane at its second landfall on August 29 over southeast Louisiana and Mississippi. After briefly weakening to tropical storm strength over southern Florida, Katrina entered the Gulf of Mexico on August 26 and rapidly intensified. On August 25, two hours before making landfall at Hallandale Beach, it strengthened into a hurricane. Early the following day, the depression intensified into a tropical storm and headed generally westward toward Florida. Katrina originated on August 23, 2005, as a result of the merger of a tropical wave and the remnants of Tropical Depression Ten. ![]() It was also the fourth-most intense Atlantic hurricane on record that made landfall in the contiguous United States by barometric pressure. Katrina was the twelfth tropical cyclone, the fifth hurricane, and the third major hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. At the time, it was the costliest tropical cyclone on record, tied now with Hurricane Harvey of 2017. Hurricane Katrina was a devastating Category 5 Atlantic hurricane that resulted in 1,836 fatalities and caused damage estimated between $97.4 billion to $145.5 billion in late August 2005, particularly in the city of New Orleans and its surrounding areas. Works related to Katrina sources at Wikisource.Media related to Hurricane Katrina at Wikimedia Commons.Part of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season Louisiana (especially Greater New Orleans).South Florida, Central Florida and the Florida Panhandle. ![]()
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