Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Hurricane Betsy was an intense, deadly and destructive tropical cyclone that brought widespread damage to areas of Florida and the central United States Gulf Coast in September 1965.
Hurricane Betsy - September 6-13, 1965 On August 27th, reconnaissance aircraft found a tropical depression east of the Leeward Islands. By late in the day the system strengthened into a tropical storm, as it moved west-northwest near 15 mph. On the 28th, the cyclone moved along the length of the Lesser Antilles at nearly 20 mph while continuing
Hurricane Betsy, which is reported as one of the deadliest and costliest storms in United States history, began as a tropical disturbance photographed by the TIROS weather satellite on August 23, 1965.
Early on Sept. 10, 1965, Hurricane Betsy came ashore in Louisiana, bringing devastating flooding to New Orleans. Betsy became one of the most expensive storms up to that date, and it’s erratic path leading up to that landfall caused considerable consternation for the public, forecasters and research scientists alike.
Betsy was a large category four hurricane as it made landfall across Southeast Louisiana and moved across Central Louisiana. While the highest winds occurred along and east of the track, hurricane force wind gusts were recorded across South Central and Central Louisiana due to the large size.
On the evening of September 7, Betsy struck south Florida with hurricane-force winds that lasted for twelve hours. Damage there was estimated at $100 million to $150 million, and four people were killed.
Hurricane Betsy hit Louisiana on September 9, 1965. It was the first Atlantic storm to produce over $1 billion in damages, and caused between 70 and 80 deaths. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers developed the Hurricane Protection Program as a result of the storm’s impact on New Orleans levees.
Today, the series continues with a remembrance of 1965's Hurricane Betsy. THEN: On the morning of Sept. 9, 1965, New Orleans was holding its collective breath. The monster Hurricane Betsy,...
On September 10, 1965, the day after Hurricane Betsy plowed through southeastern Louisiana, President Lyndon Johnson flew to New Orleans. He went to the people, to shelters where evacuees were gathered, to neighborhoods all over the city. There was no electricity and, so that people could see and hear him at one
More than 50 years later, the name Betsy still holds legendary status in south Louisiana, serving as a memory of the utter devastation hurricanes can wreak.O...