USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated coastal areas of the Gulf Coast states of Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi, including the city of New Orleans. It was among the greatest of natural disasters to ever strike the United States.

Detailed explanation-2: -Hurricane Katrina was a destructive Category 5 Atlantic hurricane that caused 1, 392 fatalities and between $97.4 billion to $145.5 billion in damage in late August 2005, especially in the city of New Orleans and the surrounding areas.

Detailed explanation-3: -29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall as a Category 3 storm near the Louisiana-Mississippi border. Less than one month later, on Sept. 24, 2005, Hurricane Rita slammed into the Louisiana-Texas border. These storms created catastrophic damage along the Gulf Coast.

Detailed explanation-4: -It was once the storm passed that the worst happened. The storm surge did in fact pressure the levees and drainage canals and breached over fifty times, causing widespread flooding to over 70 percent of New Orleans in the days following the storm’s landfall.