The prediction warned of Katrina having 'unprecedented strength,' and said that widespread property and infrastructure damage was likely.
reached New Orleans on August 29, 2005. Katrina brought widespread damage and death to New Orleans and surrounding areas, including parts of Mississippi and Alabama.
"Hurricane Katrina was the costliest and one of the deadliest hurricanes to strike the United States in recorded history," the National Weather Service in New Orleans said in a statement on the 15th anniversary of the storm."Katrina's destruction wasn't limited to just Louisiana and Mississippi with damage reported as far east as the Florida Panhandle due to the large wind field and storm surge associated with the hurricane.
People walk through high water in front of the Superdome on August 30, 2005, in New Orleans, Louisiana. On the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, a meteorologist shared a warning that was issued a day before the deadly hurricane made landfall.In the statement shared by Spann, Ricks said:"Most of the area will be uninhabitable for weeks...perhaps longer...at least one half of well constructed homes will have roof and wall failure.
"The majority of industrial buildings will become non functional. Partial to complete wall and roof failure is expected...power outages will last for weeks...as most power poles will be down and transformers will be destroyed...the vast majority of native trees will be snapped or uprooted." According to the National Weather Service in New Orleans, Katrina formed as a tropical depression around August 23.
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