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The darker areas are the flood waters and the dates under the pictures show the progress made to rid the city of the water. Picture from NASA. Hurricane Katrina. The clean up for Hurricane Katrina is still on going. A lot of water flooded the city and some areas that were flooded near New Orleans are still under water.
Those areas may just become lakes because the water may never drain out. New Orleans had to fix their water pumps in order to drain their city. This took a few days because they couldn't replace them since the pumps they did have, weren't manufactured anymore. The extra time it took to repair the pumps meant that the city stayed in the dirty water that much longer.
This meant that most homes that were flooded had to be completely destroyed. The foundations were weakened and more and more mold was growing. The city was going to be uninhabitatable longer and longer. The levees also had to be repaired to keep the water out of the city. When the water was finally pumped out, the homes had to be taken care of.
The people of the city were put in temporary trailers while their homes were destroyed and then reconstructed. Every home that was flooded, had to be destroyed because it sat too long, too much mold and putrid water sat within them. Once the homes were cleared and power was restored, the concerns for human health went down considerably. Clean water and food were brought in while the plants that filtered the water were being repaired and power was restored. Katrina hit New Orleans the hardest, mainly because it is below sea level and easily flooded, but it also did damage in other states.
The storm initially formed as a tropical depression southeast of the Bahamas on August By the evening of August 25, when it made landfall north of the Broward-Miami-Dade county line, it had intensified into a category 1 hurricane. After passing over Florida, Katrina again weakened, and was reclassified as a tropical storm.
But over the Gulf of Mexico, some miles west of Key West, the storm gathered strength above the warmer waters of the gulf. On August 28, the storm was upgraded to a category 5 hurricane, with steady winds of mph. In this satellite image, a close-up of the center of Hurricane Katrina's rotation is seen at a. EST on August 29, over southeastern Louisiana.
Katrina made landfall that morning as a Category 4 storm with sustained winds in excess of mph. On the morning of August 29, , Katrina made landfall around 60 miles southeast of New Orleans. Within an hour, nearly every building in lower Plaquemines Parish would be destroyed.
Winds of mph and storm surges of 28 feet devastated much of Biloxi and Gulfport, Mississippi. Army Corps of Engineers, which administered the levees, received a report that water had broken through the concrete flood wall between the 17th Street Canal and the city. At the time of the hurricane, Galveston, nicknamed the Oleander City, was filled with vacationers.
In October , a powerful storm slammed the islands of the Caribbean, killing more than 20, people. Known as the Great Hurricane of , it is among the deadliest storms ever recorded. Specifics about the hurricane, such as its exact point of origin and strength, are The season kicked off in mid-June when a squall formed in the Caribbean and tore across St. Lucia and Puerto Rico. In August, two more storms struck the Caribbean islands and New Orleans, killing dozens of Live TV. This Day In History.
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Great Hurricane of In October , a powerful storm slammed the islands of the Caribbean, killing more than 20, people. The Deadliest Atlantic Hurricane was among the worst years in history for North Atlantic hurricanes.
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