Hurricane

Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Katrina, which happened in 2005, was the most costly hurricane in the history of the US. It is the sixth strongest Atlantic hurricane recorded. It formed over the Bahamas on August 23rd. While it crossed Florida it was just a category 1 hurricane, but still caused some deaths until strengthening in the Gulf of Mexico. The storm weakened before making its second landfall as Category 3 on the morning of Monday, August 29 in southeast Louisiana. The most severe loss of life and property damage happened in New Orleans. At least 1,836 people lost their lives in the actual hurricane and in the subsequent floods, making it the deadliest U.S. hurricane since the 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane.