Hurricane Katrina

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  • Remembering Hurricane Katrina

    Harvard Crimson 6 hours, 20 minutes ago

    By Paul Harris On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit landfall in the Gulf and moved on. On August 30 the levees in New Orleans failed. ...

  • Five Years After Katrina, Conservatives Still Want To Gut FEMA

    Huffington Post (blog) 18 hours, 2 minutes ago

    We know the pathetic disaster response to Hurricane Katrina by the Bush administration was rooted in anti-government, pro-privatization conservative ...

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Hurricane Katrina of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was the costliest natural disaster, as well as one of the five deadliest hurricanes, in the history of the United States. Among recorded Atlantic hurricanes, it was the sixth strongest overall. At least 1,836 people lost their lives in the actual hurricane and in the subsequent floods, making it the deadliest U.S. hurricane since the 1928 Okeechobee hurricane; total property damage was estimated at $81 billion, nearly triple the damage wrought by Hurricane Andrew in 1992.

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