The stench and heat were overwhelming and unforgettable. September 2, I flew to New Orleans two days before the storm made landfall.
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The era of greyhound racing in the U. See how people have imagined life on Mars through history. Here are some satellite images as Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the morning of August 29th, Katrina's eye was passing over Plaquemines Parish, LA.
Katrina's eye was passing over St. Bernard Parish, LA. Katrina's eye was passing over the Pearl River on the Louisiana-Mississippi border. A very large storm surge ranging from 10 to 28 feet impacted much of the coastal areas across Southeast Louisiana and Coastal Mississippi. The highest and most devastating storm surge was recorded in the Bay St.
Louis and Pass Christian, MS areas where storm surge heights approached 28 feet. Extreme devastation was recorded along the Mississippi coast due to the combination of storm surge and battering waves with very few structures left standing. In Southeast Louisiana, storm surge values ranged from 10 to 20 feet and impacted areas extending from Terrebonne Parish to the Northshore communities of Lake Pontchartrain including Mandeville and Slidell. Extensive damage to structures was observed throughout these areas.
The storm surge overtopped the federal levee system in Orleans and St. Bernard Parishes leading to levee failures and extensive flooding of homes in these parishes. The devastation caused by the storm surge of Hurricane Katrina resulted in one of the largest displacements of a population since the Great Depression. The following are some images of the destruction caused by the wind and storm surge of Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana and Mississippi.
Slidell, LA Please Contact Us. Please try another search. Multiple locations were found. Please select one of the following:. Location Help. By 11 a. Meanwhile, flooding continued to worsen in New Orleans. The arrival of 13, U. National Guard troops and 7, U. 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. Many Katrina evacuees made it to Houston, Texas, where they were housed in the Astrodome and other shelters.
The Data Center , a New Orleans-based research organization, estimated that the storm and subsequent flooding displaced more than 1 million people, leaving hundreds of thousands of people homeless. It damaged more than a million housing units in the region. Widespread criticism of the federal response to Katrina led to the resignation of Michael D. In , the U. Army Corps of Engineers, which was responsible for the design of the levee system in New Orleans, acknowledged that outdated and faulty engineering practices used to build the levees led to most of the flooding that occurred due to Katrina.
On the state and local level, Louisiana Gov. Blanco declined to seek reelection in , and died in Nagin left office in , and was later convicted on charges of bribery, fraud and money laundering committed while in office.
The mass exodus from the Gulf Coast and New Orleans during and after Katrina represented one of the largest and most sudden relocations of people in U.
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