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The economic effects of Hurricane Katrina, which hit Louisiana, Florida, Texas and Mississippi in late August 2005, were far-reaching. In 2006, the Bush administration sought over $100 billion for repairs and reconstruction in the region, making the storm the costliest natural disaster in US history. [ 1 ]
Hurricane Katrina: Tropical cyclone 2005 United States, Bahamas: $125 [12] $155.4 107 Hurricane Harvey: ... to have an economic cost of less than 1 billion ...
Hurricane Katrina's winds and storm surge reached the Mississippi coastline on the morning of August 29, 2005, [2] [3] beginning a two-day path of destruction through central Mississippi; by 10 a.m. CDT on August 29, 2005, the eye of Katrina began traveling up the entire state, only slowing from hurricane-force winds at Meridian near 7 p.m. and ...
Preliminary economic loss data show 2024 is likely to be one of the more costly hurricane seasons of the ... including Katrina. Normalized losses for the 1900 season, which included the Galveston ...
The Galveston Hurricane. Year: 1900. ... Hurricane Katrina. Year: 2005. Death Toll: 1,833. ... both in terms of lives lost and economic devastation, highlighting the powerful and destructive force ...
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In 2018, Roger A. Pielke Jr. and Christopher Landsea published a peer-reviewed study in the scientific journal Nature Sustainability, which gave an estimate of the direct economic losses in the continental United States from 1900 to 2017 from each hurricane if that same event was to occur under contemporary (2017) societal conditions. [8]
On August 29, 2005 Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast -- leaving its mark as one of the strongest storms to ever impact the U.S. coast. Devastation ranged from Louisiana to Alabama to ...