https://padlet.com/2764236417/z2exxy8dzq9qfczn Hurricane Katrina en-us 2023-03-14 16:20:55 UTC 2026-02-11 01:33:42 UTC hello@padlet.com 2764236417 https://padlet.com/2764236417/z2exxy8dzq9qfczn/wish/2516415781 Hurricane Katrina hit the United States in 2005. She made head way in the Gulf of Mexico and made landfall near Grand Isle, Louisiana as a category 3 hurricane.]]> 2023-03-14 16:34:54 UTC https://padlet.com/2764236417/z2exxy8dzq9qfczn/wish/2516415781 2764236417 https://padlet.com/2764236417/z2exxy8dzq9qfczn/wish/2516425315 The hurricane was 174mph at her peak of wind speed. At Louisiana she was a steady 140mph and 125 on her second landfall on the Louisiana/Mississippi border. When Katrina first formed she was a category 1 hurricane until being trapped in the Gulf of Mexico, transforming into a category 5 then lowering to a category 3 when she hit landfall.]]> 2023-03-14 16:41:08 UTC https://padlet.com/2764236417/z2exxy8dzq9qfczn/wish/2516425315 2764236417 https://padlet.com/2764236417/z2exxy8dzq9qfczn/wish/2516446544 Hurricane Katrina claimed the lives of an estimated 1,800 people during her time and aftermath. She left a recorded 7500 nonfatal injuries a month after the storm. Many of the reasons were fall, cut, stab, and pierced. People who were residents were more likely to be injured than relief workers.

1.2 million evacuated during the Hurricane and 10,000 remained in the Superdome shelter.]]> 2023-03-14 16:55:32 UTC https://padlet.com/2764236417/z2exxy8dzq9qfczn/wish/2516446544 2764236417 https://padlet.com/2764236417/z2exxy8dzq9qfczn/wish/2516449182 2023-03-14 16:57:22 UTC https://padlet.com/2764236417/z2exxy8dzq9qfczn/wish/2516449182 2764236417 https://padlet.com/2764236417/z2exxy8dzq9qfczn/wish/2516455212 2023-03-14 17:01:23 UTC https://padlet.com/2764236417/z2exxy8dzq9qfczn/wish/2516455212 2764236417 https://padlet.com/2764236417/z2exxy8dzq9qfczn/wish/2518059643 Katrina is remembered not only for its destruction but cost. The hurricane cost the United States 125 Billion at the time; and in 2020 amounts to 190 billion.

]]> 2023-03-15 16:34:24 UTC https://padlet.com/2764236417/z2exxy8dzq9qfczn/wish/2518059643 2764236417 https://padlet.com/2764236417/z2exxy8dzq9qfczn/wish/2518071623 Katrina's floods brought an onslaught of destruction in its path. The rapidly rising water had families trapped in their houses or our their roofs, the flooding delayed any efforts of aid for days. Many people forget that Katrina had left many people homeless and desperate. Nobody could be labeled as unaffected even if they came out without any bodily harm.]]> 2023-03-15 16:42:17 UTC https://padlet.com/2764236417/z2exxy8dzq9qfczn/wish/2518071623 2764236417 https://padlet.com/2764236417/z2exxy8dzq9qfczn/wish/2518087431 1 Hurricane Katrina although not the strongest is still a part of the ranks as one of the strongest tropical cyclones that have formed on Earth.

2 Other than the casualties and injured more than 700 people were missing after Katrina.

3 The forestry industry in Mississippi was affected by Katrina a lot too, 5,300 square kilometers (3293 miles) were ruined or destroyed.

4 Katrina had the United States southern states panicked. The president, George W. Bush announced a state of emergency in regions of Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi.]]> 2023-03-15 16:53:21 UTC https://padlet.com/2764236417/z2exxy8dzq9qfczn/wish/2518087431 2764236417 https://padlet.com/2764236417/z2exxy8dzq9qfczn/wish/2518093878 2023-03-15 16:57:53 UTC https://padlet.com/2764236417/z2exxy8dzq9qfczn/wish/2518093878