Bush also braced the country for a coming surge in energy prices in the wake of the destruction Katrina wrought on oil production in the Gulf of Mexico.
In fact, the last time they did was three years ago as Hurricane Katrina closed in on New Orleans and the Gulf coast.
More than 600, 000 vehicles had some level of water damage after Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf region in 2005.
Earlier this year Hurricane Isaac hit New Orleans exactly 7 years to the day that Hurricane Katrina devastated the gulf coast in 2005.
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Among the many structures demolished when Hurricane Katrina tore through the Gulf Coast was the Marine Life Oceanarium in Gulfport, Mississippi.
In August 2005 Hurricane Katrina thundered along the Gulf coast.
Let's look at a Senate inquiry that came about this week, looking into the situation in New Orleans, and the Gulf Coast region, and Hurricane Katrina, and the like.
Documents released by the committee show that top federal officials warned the White House hours before Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast that the storm would likely cause breaches in the protective levees around New Orleans, Louisiana.
On Sunday, a day before making landfall, Katrina built up strength in the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
Mr. OMO MOSES (Executive Director, Finding Our Folk Tour): the Finding Our Folk Tour is a student-organized response to hurricanes Katrina and Rita and how that impacted folks in the Gulf Coast.
It had its debut in 2007, two years after Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast.
C. connections to get help for the Gulf Coast in the wake of Katrina, and voters appear ready to reward him with a second term.
In all, about two million residents have been told to leave the Gulf Coast, and despite the lessons of Hurricane Katrina, the evacuation of the largest city in Rita's path, Houston, has not gone well.
But Hurricane Katrina's winds pushed in a devastating surge of water from the Gulf of Mexico that overwhelmed the city's system of levees built to hold back the surrounding Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain.
In Katrina's aftermath a lot of attention has gone to restoring the Gulf of Mexico's oil rigs.
Two weeks after Katrina slammed into the central Gulf Coast and water filled the city from breaches in the levees that were supposed to protect it, 40 percent of New Orleans is still underwater.
Before Hurricane Katrina ripped along the Gulf Coast, Mayor Ray Nagin was considered a shoe-in for reelection.
Already there are calls for policy changes to fix the flaws in America's energy infrastructure exposed by Katrina: its tight refining capacity, its dependence on offshore drilling in the hurricane-prone Gulf, its love affair with big, inefficient cars.
Davis also rushed to the Gulf Coast region following Hurricane Katrina's devastating rampage through the area in August 2005.
Communication breakdowns between emergency responders can be paralyzing during catastrophic events--like Hurricane Katrina last fall on the Gulf Coast and the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York City.
"You folks who hate Bush so passionately should make up your mind as to what you want Bush to do... to be in the Gulf (as you criticized him so harshly for not being during Katrina) or to be at the RNC, " GFTrueBlue wrote.
The president was to spend less than four hours in New Orleans and will not visit other areas of the Gulf Coast affected by Katrina, such as the Mississippi coast.
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The biggest news of the week was Hurricane Katrina, which devastated New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, and continues to leave chaos and confusion in its wake.
The most recent statistics from the Energy Information Administration prior to Katrina showed that 43% of the crude oil America consumes daily is refined on the Gulf Coast in Louisiana or Texas.
In addition, the Department of Education continues to support schools throughout the Gulf Coast that suffered damage from Katrina and other hurricanes.
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