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  1. Sixteen years after Katrina, New Orleans has strengthened its flood ...

  2. Hurricane Katrina Response And Recovery Update | FEMA.gov

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    When the hurricane made landfall in southeast Louisiana on Aug. 29, 2005, its intensity had diminished but was still a major Category 3 storm. Katrina caused over 1,800 deaths and $100 billion in damage. New Orleans was particularly hit hard due to flooding. The hurricane’s 19-foot storm surge broke through the city’s flood walls and the levees.
    Sixteen years ago, Hurricane Katrina reached its peak intensity in the Gulf of Mexico with maximum sustained winds of 175 mph. When the hurricane made landfall in southeast Louisiana on Aug. 29, 2005, its intensity had diminished but was still a major Category 3 storm. Katrina caused over 1,800 deaths and $100 billion in damage.
    In all, Hurricane Katrina killed nearly 2,000 people and affected some 90,000 square miles of the United States. Hundreds of thousands of evacuees scattered far and wide. According to The Data Center, an independent research organization in New Orleans, the storm ultimately displaced more than 1 million people in the Gulf Coast region.
    Katrina then weakened to a tropical storm, since hurricanes require warm ocean water to sustain speed and strength and begin to weaken over land. However, the storm then crossed back into the Gulf of Mexico, where it quickly regained strength and hurricane status. ( Read a detailed timeline of how the storm developed .)
  4. Hurricane Katrina | Deaths, Damage, & Facts | Britannica

  5. Hurricane Katrina facts and information - National Geographic

  6. 16 Years After Katrina, Gulf Coast Residents Confront …

    WEB29 Aug 2021 · But the intensity of the storm and seeing neighbors and friends evacuate is triggering trauma from Hurricane Katrina. The Category 3 storm slammed into the Gulf Coast this same weekend 16 …

  7. New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward is still reeling from …

    WEB29 Aug 2020 · New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward is still reeling from Hurricane Katrina's damage 15 years later | Katrina | nola.com. Kent Montgomery settled in for bad weather last week under a roof in the...

  8. These Maps Show the Severe Impact of Hurricane Katrina on New …

  9. ‘Like a monster tried to get in’: New Orleans, scarred by …

    WEB31 Aug 2021 · This neighbourhood bore some of the worst scars of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, when New Orleans’s levee system failed and submerged the Lower Ninth in a storey of water, sweeping away lives …

  10. Hurricane Katrina - Facts, Affected Areas & Lives Lost | HISTORY

  11. Remembering Hurricane Katrina's Impact, 15 Years Later : NPR