Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
August 29, 2005 – Although Hurricane Katrina's eye came ashore in lower Plaquemines Parish Louisiana, the resulting storm surge resulted in multiple levee failures in the New Orleans area, flooding approximately 80% of the city, with some places being inundated by more than 15 ft (4.6 m) of water. The failures of the levees were considered ...
Racer's hurricane; 1856 Last Island hurricane; 1893 Cheniere Caminada hurricane; 1901 Louisiana hurricane; 1906 Mississippi hurricane; 1909 Grand Isle hurricane; 1915 New Orleans hurricane; 1918 Louisiana hurricane; 1919 Florida Keys hurricane; 1920 Louisiana hurricane; 1926 Louisiana hurricane; 1940 Louisiana hurricane; 1947 Fort Lauderdale ...
The 1935 Labor Day hurricane was the most intense hurricane to make landfall on the country, having struck the Florida Keys with a pressure of 892 mbar.It was one of only seven hurricanes to move ashore as a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane scale; the others were "Okeechobee" in 1928, Karen in 1962, Camille in 1969, Andrew in 1992, Michael in 2018, and Yutu in 2018, which ...
Sixteen years to the day that Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed the levees of New Orleans, Hurricane Ida crashed ashore, coming within 30 miles of the city's downtown as the storm tracked inland.
Sixty-eight was the number of hurricanes that hit North Carolina, ranking it 2 out of 5. North Carolina tied with Alabama and South Carolina with 12 as the number of major hurricanes that hit.
Most of the city’s major roads were damaged. The only route out of the city was east to the West Bank of New Orleans on the Crescent City Connection bridge. The I-10 Twin Span Bridge traveling east towards Slidell suffered severe damage; 473 spans were separated from their supports and 64 spans dropped into the lake. [28]
Here are the top 5 U.S. states hit with the most hurricanes, ... A heavy rain falls on the New Orleans Katrina Memorial the day after the 15th anniversary of the storm. Hurricane Katrina, in ...
Hurricane Katrina was a powerful, devastating and historic tropical cyclone that caused 1,392 fatalities and damages estimated at $125 billion in late August 2005, particularly in the city of New Orleans and its surrounding area.