![]() The floodwaters had receded, the Superdome had emptied, the national press had left, and we weren’t anywhere near the city’s most famous devastated neighborhood, the Lower Ninth Ward-but still what you saw was a landscape of abandoned buildings, moldy refrigerators set out on sidewalks, downed trees and electrical wires, and a thick impasto of mud covering everything. This is Now - Ten Years After Katrina from Guardian News & Media Ltd on Vimeo.When we came home to New Orleans for the first time after Hurricane Katrina, over Thanksgiving weekend of 2005, my then three-year-old son, looking out the window on the drive in from the airport, said, “You told me we were going to New Orleans, but now we’re in Iraq.” This was three months after the storm hit. #10 And today (2015) after a decade of the disaster, watch how New Orleans looks like! ![]() #9 And this what we have learned from the costliest natural disaster that killed nearly 2,000 people and caused over $100 billion in damage. This loops shows colorized infrared imagery from the GOES-12 satellite as it tracks the storm during late August of 2005. and Atlantic Ocean from 2003-2010, it tracked hundreds of severe weather events - but none more iconic than Hurricane Katrina. ![]() As the official weather satellite monitoring the eastern U.S. #8 On August 16, 2013, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) officially decommissioned the GOES-12 satellite. #7 More than 25,000 animals perished in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and thousand others were left without shelter. #6 This documentary on Hurricane Katrina shows step by step destruction and its aftermath. Reporters and producers at WWL Radio kept their station on air and helped keep their listeners alive! #5 With all the communication services disrupted, people were unable to get information about the devastation. # 4 In this video, you can see how this massive storm uprooted the trees and how debris flew through the air as the hurricane winds ripped apart New Orleans. #3 While most people were trying to get to a safe place, two photographers Mike Theiss and Jim Reed decided to stay in a hotel and made this video which captured some spine-chilling images of Hurricane Katrina. With 28 foot waves it shook the United States Of America killing thousands of people and leaving many others stranded. #2 This is how this historic storm surged. ![]() To mark the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, here are 10 videos that will make you recall the troubled times and how people put up a brave fight: #1 On August 28th 2005, with the power of a nuclear explosion, Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana and with 125 mile per hour winds it caused widespread devastation. It was the costliest natural disaster, as well as one of the five deadliest hurricanes, in the history of the United States.Īround 2,000 people died and over one million people displaced from the central Gulf coast to elsewhere across the United States in this powerful and deadly storm. Hurricane Katrina was the third strongest hurricane to hit America in over a 100 years. ![]()
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