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Hurricane Katrina: Gulf Coast
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The response of Americans for Hurricane Katrina victims has been amazing. This has brought many people together, espcially those who live in the South. Every year the Gulf Coast in effected by hurricanes, but none have been nearly as bad a Katrina. The Red Cross has done its job and gone far beyond anyones expectations.
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On August 29 Hurricane Katrina made landfall near Buras, Louisiana with 125 mph (205 km/h) winds, as a strong Category 3 storm. However, as it had only just weakened from Category 4 strength and the radius of maximum winds was large, it is possible that sustained winds of Category 4 strength briefly impacted extreme southeastern Louisiana. Although the storm surge to the east of the path of the eye in Mississippi was higher, a very significant surge affected the Louisiana coast. The height of the surge is uncertain because of a lack of data, although a tide gauge in Plaquemines Parish indicated a storm tide in excess of 14 feet (4.3 m) and a 12 foot (3 m) storm surge was recorded in Grand Isle.[1]
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Slabs – from the day of Katrina – On August 29, 2005 Hurricane Katrina decimated every mile of Mississippi's inland coastline. Hundreds were killed, more than a hundred thousand were left homeless and more than one million were affected by the storm in Mississippi. The above photo was typical up and down the Mississippi Gulf Coast. In this photo it shows Katrina's complete obliteration of a neighborhood in Long Beach, Mississippi
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Tropical Storm Katrina had just become the eleventh named storm of the 2005 Atlantic Hurricane season when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite captured this image on August 24, 2005, at 11:50 a.m., Eastern Daylight Savings Time. The storm formed late on August 23 and developed quickly into a tropical storm by 11 a.m. the next morning. By the time MODIS acquired this image, the storm was just starting to take the recognizable swirling shape of a hurricane. Katrina had winds of 64 kilometers per hour (40 miles per hour) and was expected to get stronger as it approaches the south Florida coast, possibly becoming a Category 1 hurricane before coming ashore. Click to enlarge.
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Hurricane Katrina was the eleventh tropical storm, fifth hurricane, and the second Category 5 hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. The storm formed over the Bahamas on August 23, where it moved east and hit Florida as a Category 1 hurricane two days later. Katrina then crossed over Florida and strengthened into a Category 5 hurricane over the Gulf of Mexico. The storm then made its last landfalls over Louisiana and Mississippi on the morning of August 29. The leftovers of Katrina then died out over the Great Lakes on August 31.
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Although Hurricane Katrina stayed well to the north of Cuba, on August 29 it brought tropical-storm force winds and rainfall of over 8 inches (200 mm) to western regions of the island. Telephone and power lines were damaged and around 8,000 people were evacuated in the Pinar del Río Province. According to Cuban television reports the coastal city of Surgidero de Batabano was 90% underwater.[32]
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