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<blockquote data-quote="texan" data-source="post: 1016257" data-attributes="member: 38206">On this day, 29 August 2005, Hurricane Katrina slams into Gulf Coast.Hurricane Katrina makes landfall near New Orleans, Louisiana, as a Category 4 hurricane on this day in 2005. Despite being only the third most powerful storm of the 2005 hurricane season, Katrina was the worst natural disaster in the history of the United States.New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin ordered a mandatory evacuation of the city on August 28, when Katrina briefly achieved Category 5 status and the National Weather Service predicted &quot;devastating&quot; damage to the area. But an estimated 150,000 people, who either did not want to or did not have the resources to leave, ignored&nbsp;the order and stayed behind. The storm brought sustained winds of 145 miles per hour, which cut power lines&nbsp;and destroyed homes, even turning cars into projectile missiles. Katrina caused record storm surges all along&nbsp;the Mississippi Gulf Coast. The surges overwhelmed the levees that protected New Orleans, located at six feet&nbsp;below sea level, from Lake Pontchartrain and the Mississippi River. Soon, 80 percent of the city was flooded up&nbsp;to the rooftops of many homes and small buildings.In all, it is believed that the hurricane caused more than 1,300 deaths and up to $150 billion in damages to both&nbsp;private property and public infrastructure. It is estimated that only about $40 billion of that number will be covered by insurance. One million people were displaced by the disaster, a phenomenon unseen in the United States since the Great Depression.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="texan, post: 1016257, member: 38206"] [B]On this day, 29 August 2005, Hurricane Katrina slams into Gulf Coast. Hurricane Katrina makes landfall near New Orleans, Louisiana, as a Category 4 hurricane on this day in 2005. Despite being only the third most powerful storm of the 2005 hurricane season, Katrina was the worst natural disaster in the history of the United States. New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin ordered a mandatory evacuation of the city on August 28, when Katrina briefly achieved Category 5 status and the National Weather Service predicted "devastating" damage to the area. But an estimated 150,000 people, who either did not want to or did not have the resources to leave, ignored the order and stayed behind. The storm brought sustained winds of 145 miles per hour, which cut power lines and destroyed homes, even turning cars into projectile missiles. Katrina caused record storm surges all along the Mississippi Gulf Coast. The surges overwhelmed the levees that protected New Orleans, located at six feet below sea level, from Lake Pontchartrain and the Mississippi River. Soon, 80 percent of the city was flooded up to the rooftops of many homes and small buildings. In all, it is believed that the hurricane caused more than 1,300 deaths and up to $150 billion in damages to both private property and public infrastructure. It is estimated that only about $40 billion of that number will be covered by insurance. One million people were displaced by the disaster, a phenomenon unseen in the United States since the Great Depression.[/B] [/QUOTE]

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