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we’ve grown accustomed to hearing about Category 3 or Category 4 storms.Hurricane Katrinawas alternately classified as a Category 4 and Category 5 storm because the wind speed changed over time.Hurricane Sandy, which started out as atropical cyclone, was classified as a Category 3 then downgrade...
By the time Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans early in the morning on Monday, August 29, it had already been raining heavily for hours. When the storm surge (as high as 9 meters in some places) arrived, it overwhelmed many of the city’s unstable levees and drainage canals. Water seep...
and “Facts about Hurricane Katrina,” both ideal for setting young readers who have been enthralled by Barry’s story on a path to discovering more about the true story of Katrina and its aftermath.(Historical fiction. 7-10) 1 Pub Date:March 1, 2011 ...
Hurricane Katrina, tropical cyclone that struck the southeastern United States in August 2005, breaching levees and causing widespread death and damage. Ultimately, the storm caused more than $160 billion in damage, and it reduced the population of New O
Katrina was powerful, but nothing was more damaging than the aftermath to come. Levees across the city started to break down, leading to mass flooding. With more than $100 billion in damages, communities, numbering in the hundreds of thousands, were displaced and more than 1,800 lives were ...
A summer in search of saints, sinners and lost souls in the New Orleans that Katrina left behind.
Personal Narrative: Hurricane Katrina On the other hand, I didn't have a problem making friends. In matter of fact, my mother used to get concerned when I bring more than five friends over to the house. My buddies and I used to have a good time every single day until Hurricane Katrina...
Personal Narrative: Hurricane Katrina Hurricane Katrina made landfall on August 23rd, 2005. It was considered a category five hurricane and complete devastated the Gulf Coast of Mississippi, which is my home. At the time I was a merely five years old, but I remember the aftermath. The coming...
Helene is the second-deadliest hurricane to strike the US mainland in the past 50 years, following Hurricane Katrina, which killed at least 1,833 people in 2005. Here’s the breakdown of deaths from Helene by state: North Carolina: 95 people South Carolina: 39 people Georgia: 25 p...