Hurricane Katrina | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-05

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Hurricane Katrina


00:04:10 1 Meteorological history
00:07:16 2 Preparations
00:07:25 2.1 Federal government
00:09:41 2.1.1 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
00:10:53 2.2 Florida and Gulf Coast
00:13:23 2.2.1 Louisiana
00:16:14 3 Impact
00:18:42 3.1 Florida, Bahamas, and Cuba
00:21:25 3.2 Louisiana
00:24:58 3.2.1 New Orleans
00:29:22 3.3 Mississippi
00:34:05 3.4 Southeast United States
00:36:46 3.5 Other U.S. states and Canada
00:40:44 4 Aftermath
00:40:53 4.1 Economic effects
00:43:26 4.2 Environmental effects
00:46:45 4.3 Reestablishing governance
00:49:17 4.4 Government response
00:53:55 4.5 Criticism of government response
00:58:07 4.6 International response
01:00:37 4.7 Non-governmental organization response
01:04:21 4.8 Analysis of New Orleans levee failures
01:09:20 4.9 Media involvement
01:12:49 4.10 Retirement
01:13:23 4.11 Studies concerning post-Katrina victims
01:15:00 5 Reconstruction
01:16:01 6 See also



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Hurricane Katrina was an extremely destructive and deadly Category 5 hurricane that struck the Gulf Coast of the United States in August 2005, causing catastrophic damage from central Florida to eastern Texas. Subsequent flooding, caused largely as a result of fatal engineering flaws in the flood protection system around the city of New Orleans, precipitated most of the loss of lives. The storm was the third major hurricane of the record-breaking 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, as well as the fourth-most intense tropical cyclone on record to make landfall in the United States, behind only the 1935 Labor Day hurricane, Hurricane Camille in 1969, and Hurricane Michael in 2018.
The storm originated over the Bahamas on August 23, 2005, from the merger of a tropical wave and the remnants of Tropical Depression Ten. Early on the following day, the new tropical depression intensified into a tropical storm and headed generally westward toward Florida, strengthening into a hurricane only two hours before making landfall at Hallandale Beach and Aventura on August 25. After very briefly weakening again to a tropical storm, Katrina emerged into the Gulf of Mexico on August 26 and began to rapidly intensify. The storm strengthened into a Category 5 hurricane over the warm waters of the Gulf, but weakened before making its second landfall as a Category 3 hurricane on August 29, over southeast Louisiana and Mississippi. As Katrina made landfall, its front right quadrant, which held the strongest winds, slammed into Gulfport, Mississippi, devastating it.Overall, at least 1,836 people died in the hurricane and subsequent floods, making Katrina the deadliest United States hurricane since the 1928 Okeechobee hurricane. Severe property damage occurred in numerous coastal areas, such as Mississippi beachfront towns where boats and casino barges rammed buildings, pushing cars and houses inland; water reached 6–12 miles (10–19 km) from the beach. Total property damage was estimated at $125 billion (2005 USD), roughly four times the damage wrought by Hurricane Andrew in 1992, tying Katrina with Hurricane Harvey of 2017 as the costliest Atlantic tropical cyclone on record.Over fifty breaches in surge protection levees surrounding the city of New Orleans, Louisiana were the cause of the majority of the death and destruction during Katrina. Eventually 80% of the city, as well as large tracts of neighboring parishes, became flooded, and the floodwaters lingered for weeks. Most of the transportation and communication networks servicing New Orleans were damaged or disabled by the flooding, and tens of thousands of people who had not evacuated the city prior to landfall became stranded with little access to food, shelter or basic necessities. The scale of the disaster in New Orleans provoked massive national and international response efforts; federal, local and private rescue operations evacuated displaced persons out of the city over the following weeks. Multiple i ...