Thursday, May 6, 2010
Research Question #3 What are the effects of Hurricane Katrina?
In south florida and cuba was fourteen inches of rainfall, More than 1 million people were left without electricity. The damage in florida was from $1-2 billion coming from flooding and overturned trees. In louisiana when the storm hit it was a category 3 hurricane, and had just weakened from four. 8-10 inches of rainfall, and 900,000 people lost electricity. New orleans had 6 deaths from various reasons, Most of new orleans was flooded. In Mississippi they had 67 people missing, 238 people dead and billions of dollars in damage.Storms brought rainfall with 8-10 inches. From all the hurricanes in the u.s hurricane katrina was ranked #1 in damge it had 81 billion dollars of damage.
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The effects of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans were long-lasting. As the center of Katrina passed east of New Orleans on August 29, 2005, winds downtown were in the Category 3 range with frequent intense gusts and tidal surge. Hurricane force winds were experienced throughout the city, although the most severe portion of Katrina missed the city, hitting nearby St. Bernard and Plaquemines parishes. Hurricane Katrina made its final landfall in eastern St. Tammany Parish. The western eye wall passed directly over St.
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