![]() ![]() WATCH: I Was There: Hurricane Katrina: Rescue Swimmer 8. In Louisiana, where more than 1,500 people are believed to have died due to Katrina’s impact, drowning (40 percent), injury and trauma (25 percent), and heart conditions (11 percent) were the major causes of death, according to a report published in 2008 by the American Medical Association. history, after the Galveston Hurricane of 1900, which killed between 8,000 and 12,000 people Hurricane Maria, which killed more than 4,600 people in Puerto Rico in 2017 and the Okeechobee Hurricane, which hit Florida in 1928 and killed as many as 3,000. Katrina’s death toll is the fourth highest of any hurricane in U.S. ![]() Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath killed 1,833 people. Many Katrina evacuees made it to Houston, Texas, where they were housed in the Astrodome and other shelters. Bush helped with evacuations and resupplying food and water to those stranded at the Superdome and convention center, all of whom were finally evacuated on September 3. military troops deployed by President George W. Meanwhile, flooding continued to worsen in New Orleans. on August 30, Katrina had dwindled to heavy rainfall and winds of about 35 mph. ![]() After wreaking havoc on the Gulf Coast, Katrina moved inland and weakened-but New Orleans remained in crisis.Īs Katrina moved inland over Mississippi, it weakened to a Category 1 hurricane and later to a tropical storm. WATCH: I Was There: Hurricane Katrina Superdome Survivor 6. Some 25,000 crowded into the convention center, while more than 25,000 filled the Superdome. Morial Convention Center as the storm approached. Still, about 100,000 people were trapped in the city when the storm hit, and many took last-ditch refuge in the New Orleans Superdome and the Ernest J. As many as 50,000 people sought refuge at the New Orleans Convention Center and the Superdome.īy some estimates, between 80 and 90 percent of New Orleans’ population was able to evacuate the city prior to Katrina. Although New Orleans’ levees and flood walls had been designed to withstand a category 3 hurricane, half of the network gave way to the waters. In some areas, floodwaters reached depths of 10 to 15 feet, and didn’t recede for weeks. The Industrial Canal was later breached as well, flooding the neighborhood known as the Lower Ninth Ward.īy late afternoon, the breaching of the London Avenue Canal levees had left 80 percent of New Orleans underwater. Army Corps of Engineers, which administered the levees, received a report that water had broken through the concrete flood wall between the 17th Street Canal and the city. ![]() Half of New Orleans’s 350-mile-long protection system of levees and flood walls was overwhelmed.Īt 5 a.m. Winds of 125 mph and storm surges of 28 feet devastated much of Biloxi and Gulfport, Mississippi. Though downgraded to a category 3, the storm’s relatively slow forward movement (around 12 mph) covered the region with far more rain than a fast-moving storm would have. Within an hour, nearly every building in lower Plaquemines Parish would be destroyed. On the morning of August 29, 2005, Katrina made landfall around 60 miles southeast of New Orleans. The eye of the storm hit the Gulf Coast near Buras, Louisiana on August 29. Katrina made landfall that morning as a Category 4 storm with sustained winds in excess of 135 mph. In this satellite image, a close-up of the center of Hurricane Katrina's rotation is seen at 9:45 a.m. ![]()
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