Once a Category 5 storm, Katrina had weakened to a Category 3 storm with 127 mph winds when it made landfall on the morning of August 29, 2005, between Grand Isle, Louisiana, and the mouth of Mississippi River.
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Their suggestion is that the United States is still woefully unprepared for a storm of Katrina's scope.
Donald Powell said that if another storm like Katrina were to hit New Orleans, there would be some flooding, but it would be manageable.
With hurricane season upon us once again, the recent anniversary of one of the most deadly and destructive in our nation's history - the mega-storm called Katrina - was an occasion for remembering what can happen if we are unprepared.
As the storm force of Katrina was less than category three when it hit land and storms in the region have the capacity to exceed category four, the likelihood that any levee system can successfully restrain nature is low.
One can only pray that we will not see the kind of storm that we saw with Katrina and the couple that followed during this storm season, or we're going to see a huge problem in New Orleans.
During Katrina, the storm surge coming up the Intracoastal Waterway destroyed a 4, 000-foot long floodwall.
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Two years after Katrina's storm surge swallowed 6, 000 of the 25, 000 homes and businesses along Biloxi Beach Boulevard, storm debris has been cleared to make way for high-rise hotels, condominiums, casinos and other businesses.
But the immediate cause of the flooding was the failure of floodwalls and levees that were guaranteed to withstand a Katrina-sized storm surge, but failed thanks to faulty design and construction by the Army Corps of Engineers.
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The NOAA's National Hurricane Center said Katrina was a Category 5 storm with sustained winds of about 160 mph as it approached the Gulf Coast.
"Katrina was a very large storm, high energy, high intensity coming across the gulf, " said Elizabeth English, an associate professor at Louisiana State University's Hurricane Center.
Four years after Katrina, evidence of the storm's devastation lingers.
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Katrina is not the first massive storm to test the Lake Pontchartrain Basin levees.
Isaac still brought with it a massive storm surge, not far below what Hurricane Katrina pushed six years ago.
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The inspector general's report says that, in hindsight, a number of factors created a "perfect storm" for development of formaldehyde problems after Katrina.
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As a Category 4 storm, Gustav is already stronger than Hurricane Katrina was when it hit New Orleans in 2005, killing some 1, 800 people and causing hundreds of billions of dollars in damage.
Multiple studies have been completed over the decades that have revealed the impact coastal wetlands have on diminishing the height and force of an extreme storm surge, such as the one seen with Katrina, as well as revealed other environmental benefits, such as the preservation of unique land and aquatic wildlife.
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.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency said Friday it was reviving a program created after Hurricane Katrina that pays rent for up to a year for storm victims who still don't have permanent places to live.
Consider this: Hurricane Katrina hit the Louisiana and Mississippi area as a Category 3 storm, and the storm surge was 25 feet at worst.
Earlier in the day, the storm had exhibited winds of 115 miles per hour, which was already below the 130 miles-per-hour winds of a typical Category 3 storm and nowhere near the 156 miles-per-hour winds of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
The storm called up uneasy memories Friday of the deadly 2005 hurricane season, particularly of Katrina.
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When Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005, Dumas housed hundreds of out-of-storm victims.
More than 1, 800 people died in the storm, most -- nearly 1, 600 -- in Louisiana, where Katrina devastated New Orleans when the city's levee system failed and widespread flooding occurred.
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In New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina damaged about 160, 000 homes, most of them flooded in the storm's aftermath.
Meteorologist had feared Gustav could be one of the most threatening storms to have hit the United States since Hurricane Katrina in 2005, which turned out to be the costliest and most deadly storm in American history.
As a Category 3 hurricane, Gustav is one of the most threatening storms to have hit the United States since Hurricane Katrina in 2005, which turned out to be the costliest and most deadly storm in American history.
We are committed to see the storm victims through the recovery, just as we did in New Orleans and Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina.
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