Most Devastating Events In The US History: Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Katrina was one of the most devastating events that has ever happened in the U.S History. Katrina started out in the Atlantic Ocean as a small rotation at the beginning of August 20th and in 4 days crossed over the southern tip of Florida. At this point it was considered a category 1 hurricane, but it didn’t do to much damage and took approximately 20 lives. Four days later the U.S Government issued an evacuation of the city because the hurricane had grown to a category 3 and predicted to get to a category 4 when it hit landfall. Over 130,000 people left New Orleans [New orleans was the major city that was hit during the Hurricane] to go to northern cities to escape the storm. Then on August 29th, 2005 Katrina hit New Orleans at about 6 o'clock in the morning. Streets, houses, buildings and everything else was under 15 feet of water and ⅔ of the city was destroyed within the first 3 hours of the category 5 hurricane. All of this happened before approximately 3 o’clock that’s when Katrina passed the city.
New Orleans was in so much water that the only way of transportation for weeks was just by boat or helicopter. When the storm hit New Orleans it destroyed almost all the levees that kept the city safe from flooding, but it didn’t entirely destroy the Mississippi levee and that is a great thing because if the storm did destroy the levee New Orleans would’ve been under 30 feet of