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When Katrina made landfall on August 29 near New Orleans on the U.S. Gulf Coast, it brought widespread devastation and flooding with it.Inside eyewall of Hurricane Katrina shortly before the storm struck Louisiana, August 2005.Satellite image of Hurricane Katrina overlaying a thermal display of sea surface temperatures for the Caribbean Sea and Atlantic Ocean, August 27, 2005.A flooded neighbourhood in Port Sulphur, Louisiana, after Hurricane Katrina.A stand of trees killed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.Aerial view of flooding in the New Orleans area following Hurricane Katrina, August 2005.Aerial views of downtown New Orleans, Louisiana, with the Superdome in the foreground, (left) on August 30, 2005, a day after Hurricane Katrina struck the city, and (right) again some 10 years later on July 29, 2015.George W. Bush surveying the damage to New Orleans caused by Hurricane Katrina as he heads to Washington, D.C., aboard Air Force One, August 31, 2005.Learn about how hurricanes and typhoons are given their names according to rules created by the World Meteorological Organization.The National Guard searching for survivors in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, August 2005.President George W. Bush touring the damage to New Orleans and the Gulf Coast caused by Hurricane Katrina, which struck the region in late August 2005.This article was most recently revised and updated by
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“It took me too long and I worked too hard to build what I had here.”His goal: To make it possible for his wife of 65 years, Lydia — who had gone to live with one of their nine children in Wisconsin after Katrina — to return home.“I talk to her every other day, and that’s her main question — ‘How long is it going to be? There’s a river of water moving into this area. PBS is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. Additional funding is provided by the Abrams Foundation, the Park Foundation, The John and Helen Glessner Family Trust, and the FRONTLINE Journalism Fund with major support from Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L. Hagler Foundation. Major funding for FRONTLINE is provided by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Ford Foundation.
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We reserve the right to not post comments that are more than 400 words. Aerial video of New Orleans, taken from a news helicopter shortly after storm, shows the vast devastation Katrina caused. So almost as troubling as the Hurricane Katrina back-story told in actor Harry Shearer’s new documentary The Big Uneasy is the fact that it has taken a documentary … National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellite image of Hurricane Katrina, taken on August 28, 2005.Hurricane Katrina formed on August 23, 2005, and in less than a week grew from a tropical depression into a category 4 hurricane. By the following afternoon Katrina had become one of the most powerful Atlantic storms on record, with winds in excess of 170 miles per hour (275 km per hour). Their communications center was useless.
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