Hurricane Katrina stadium effect from Hurricane Hunters
Katrina storm surge
Posted on 08/29/2025 5:40:48 PM PDT by NautiNurse
Twenty years ago, Hurricane Katrina roared ashore along the northern Gulf Coast, becoming one of the deadliest and most destructive natural disasters in U.S. history.
The Category 3 hurricane devastated Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle, leading to more than 1,000 deaths and more than $100 billion in damage.
The cyclone first developed on Aug. 23, 2005, as a tropical depression over the southeastern Bahamas and, within a day, strengthened into Tropical Storm Katrina before moving toward Florida.
Due to the warm waters of the Gulf Stream, Katrina quickly organized and made landfall near the Miami-Dade and Broward County line as a Category 1 hurricane with winds of 80 mph.
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Within 72 hours, Katrina became a Category 5 hurricane with peak sustained winds of 175 mph and a central pressure of 902 millibars.
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Despite the hurricane’s weakening, its overall size and status on the Saffir Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale produced a storm surge of what was reminiscent of a Category 4 or Category 5 hurricane across much of the northern Gulf Coast.
Along the Mississippi coast, surge levels reached nearly 28 feet in Pass Christian, leveling coastal neighborhoods.
While New Orleans was on what was considered to be the weaker side of the storm, the combination of rainfall and surge overwhelmed levee systems and within 48 hours of landfall, authorities estimated that 80% of the Big Easy was underwater, displacing hundreds of thousands of residents.
Government assessments estimated that 1.5 million people were displaced across the region, many of whom never returned.
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The federal government’s response, particularly that of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, came under sharp criticism in Katrina’s wake.
Then-FEMA director Michael D. Brown resigned in the storm’s aftermath amid widespread backlash over reported mismanagement and poor communication.
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Hurricane Katrina stadium effect from Hurricane Hunters
Katrina storm surge
Looking back to a monumental time in FR history. May we never see another storm like Hurricane Katrina.
I remember starting a “doom and gloom” thread I will see if I can find it
Video
August 29, 2005 Helicopter View of Damage- Day After Katrina Biloxi, Pascagoula MS
https://rumble.com/v10b8w3-august-24-2005-helicopter-view-of-damage-day-after-katrina-biloxi-pascagoul.html
George Bush hates black people.
Is that the best you’ve got?
Some context with your little photo would be helpful.
Context for my picture:
That is Mike Meyers and Kanye West making a brief public service announcement in support of the victims of Katrina. Out of the blue, Kanye blurted: “George Bush hates black people.” Which caught Myers by surprise, as can be seen in the photo. Which is why Hyman Roth made the quote above.
Didn’t we get the black guy with the long strait hair walking in the water with the case of beer?
Looter guy! That’s him!
May we never see another Republican President like Bush who said nothing when being blamed for everything in the aftermath by both the Rats and the MSM.
“Bodies stacked up like cordwood in the Super Dome!” They may have to tear the stadium down. They’ll never be able to use it again.
Brian Williams saw bodies floating in front of his hotel.
Great job media.
Priorities!
I am getting there for preparation.
“Don’t get stuck on stupid!”
As reported in the Huffington Post.
“It is reported that black hurricane victims in New Orleans have begun eating corpses to survive. Four days after the storm, thousands of blacks in New Orleans are dying like dogs. No-one has come to help them.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/new-orleans_b_6643
to this day, they still blame Bush, even though it was the air head governors fault and the moron mayor too for the bad response. Even still, you gotta be pretty stupid to die in a hurricane. Youve got plenty of advanced warning. Tornadoes, not so much...earthquakes, ZERO warning. But a hurricane?...no excuse.
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