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The Storm Part II. - According to a report by the National Hurricane Center, 20 December 2005 by R.D.Knabb, J.R.Rhome, and D.P.Brown, "Katrina was an extraordinarily powerful and deadly hurricane that carved a wide swath of catastrophic damage and inflicted large loss of life. It was the costliest and one of the five deadliest hurricanes to ever strike the United States. Katrina first caused fatalities and damage in southern Florida as a Category 1 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale. After reaching Category 5 intensity over the central Gulf of Mexico, Katrina weakened to Category 3 before making landfall on the northern Gulf coast. Even so, the damage and loss of life inflicted by this massive hurricane in Louisiana and Mississippi were staggering...
The storm surge of Katrina struck the Mississippi coastline with such ferocity that entire coastal communities were obliterated, some left with little more than the foundations upon which homes, businesses, government facilities, and other historical buildings once stood...
The American Insurance Services Group (AISG) estimates that Katrina is responsible for $40.6 billion of insured losses in the United States. A preliminary estimate of the total damage cost of Katrina in the United States is assumed to be roughly twice the insured losses, or about $81 billion. This figure makes Katrina far and away the costliest hurricane in United States history."
In a follow-up Technical Report 2005-01 by NOAA's National Climatic Data Center on the hurricane. It stated, "At landfall sustained winds were 127 mph...displacement of 250,000 people...total damage/costs estimated to be around $125 billion."
Photos courtesy of Bob Tuttle, April 2006.
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