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Hurricane Katrina of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was the
costliest natural disaster, as well as one of the five deadliest

hurricanes, in the history of the United States.[2] Among recorded
Atlantic hurricanes, it was the sixth strongest overall. At least 1,836
people died in the actual hurricane and in the subsequent floods,
making it the deadliest U.S. hurricane since the 1928 Okeechobee
hurricane; total property damage was estimated at $81 billion (2005
USD),[2] nearly triple the damage wrought by Hurricane Andrew in
1992.[3]
Hurricane Katrina formed over the Bahamas on August 23, 2005 and
crossed southern Florida as a moderate hurricane, causing some
deaths and flooding there before strengthening rapidly in the Gulf of
Mexico. The storm weakened before making its second landfall as a
The criticisms of the government's response to Hurricane Katrina
primarily consisted of criticism of mismanagement and lack of
leadership in the relief efforts in response to the storm and its
aftermath. More specifically, the criticism focused on the delayed
response to the flooding of New Orleans, and the subsequent state of
chaos in the Crescent City.[53] The neologism Katrinagate was coined
to refer to this controversy, and was a runner-up for "2005 word of the
year."[107]
storm on the morning of Monday, August 29 in southeast Louisiana. It

caused severe destruction along the Gulf coast from central Florida to
Texas, much of it due to the storm surge. The most significant amount
of deaths occurred in New Orleans, Louisiana, which flooded as the
levee system catastrophically failed, in many cases hours after the
storm had moved inland.[4] Eventually 80% of the city and large tracts
of neighboring parishes became flooded, and the floodwaters lingered
for weeks.[4] However, the worst property damage occurred in coastal
areas, such as all Mississippi beachfront towns, which were flooded
over 90% in hours, as boats and casino barges rammed buildings,
pushing cars and houses inland, with waters reaching 6–12 miles (10–
19 km) from the beach.
The hurricane protection failures in New Orleans prompted a lawsuit

against the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), the designers and
builders of the levee system as mandated in the Flood Control Act of
1965. Responsibility for the failures and flooding was laid squarely on
the Army Corps in January 2008, but the federal agency could not be
held financially liable due to sovereign immunity in the Flood Control
Act of 1928. There was also an investigation of the responses from
federal, state and local governments, resulting in the resignation of
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) director Michael D.
Brown, and of New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) Superintendent
Eddie Compass. Conversely, the United States Coast Guard (USCG),
National Hurricane Center (NHC) and National Weather Service (NWS)
were widely commended for their actions, accurate forecasts and
abundant lead time.[5]
Five years later, thousands of displaced residents in Mississippi and

Louisiana are still living in temporary accommodation. Reconstruction
of each section of the southern portion of Louisiana has been
addressed in the Army Corps of Engineers LACPR Final Technical
Report which identifies areas not to be rebuilt and areas and buildings
that need to be elevated.[6
Katrina also had a profound impact on the environment. The storm

surge caused substantial beach erosion, in some cases completely
devastating coastal areas. In Dauphin Island, approximately 90 miles
(150 km) to the east of the point where the hurricane made landfall,
the sand that comprised the barrier island was transported across the
island into the Mississippi Sound, pushing the island towards land.[79]
The storm surge and waves from Katrina also obliterated the
Chandeleur Islands, which had been affected by Hurricane Ivan the
previous year.[80] The US Geological Survey has estimated 217 square
miles (560 km2) of land was transformed to water by the hurricanes
Katrina and Rita.[81]
The lands that were lost were breeding grounds for marine mammals,
brown pelicans, turtles, and fish, as well as migratory species such as
redhead ducks.[72] Overall, about 20% of the local marshes were
permanently overrun by water as a result of the storm.[72]
The U.S. hurricane disaster will go down in history as the most significient
disaster , not because of any difference in sufferings but because of its
effects felt around the planet......................................

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Hurricane Katrina of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was the

costliest natural disaster, as well as one of the five deadliest

storm on the morning of Monday, August 29 in southeast Louisiana. It

The hurricane protection failures in New Orleans prompted a lawsuit

Five years later, thousands of displaced residents in Mississippi and

Katrina also had a profound impact on the environment. The storm

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