Definition of Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Katrina has been the most devastating hurricane in United States history, because precisely the states of Louisiana, New Orleans, Alabama, Florida and Mississippi were the most affected. The Atlantic area normally brings complex phenomena every year, but Katrina was unparalleled and in 2005 produced tremendous material and human damage to the inhabitants of the aforementioned places in the United States. It also affected other countries such as Cuba and the Bahamas. In the United States, it is considered the most serious in history as we have already said, while in the history of the hurricanes that affected the Atlantic, Katrina ranks six in the ranking.

Two thousand victims and damages of more than ten billion dollars

His devastating raid lasted a week, from August 23 to August 30, 2005, with winds that reached 280 kilometers per hour. And not to mention the fatalities that were almost two thousand people and damages for almost one hundred and ten billion dollars.

New Orleans, the big hit

That brutality with which it struck especially in New Orleans had of course to do with the violence of the climatic phenomenon but the containment dikes also failed and that added more complexity to stage. For the latter is that the government was severely questioned.

What is a hurricane? How was the action of Katrina?

Hurricanes are displacement of currents of air of great intensity that are produced by low pressure and a process of evaporation from the sea. And the winds swirl around a point

Katrina was formed in the Bahamas and from there it crossed to the state of Florida in the United States, being observed at that time as a hurricane category 1 and of moderate characteristics, however, in the Gulf of Mexico it regains virulence and is established there in category 5. When it touched New Orleans it had its worst state of gravity and the city was completely flooded because the containment system of the levees totally failed. Long weeks the city spent under the Water. 80% of it was flooded and the material and human damages were colossal.

Solidarity aid and reconstruction

The reconstruction work was certainly hard in every sense, in structural matters and also in regard to the social fabric that had lost everything and been plunged into total poverty. Of course, the planning of a new levee system was required, which took about six years of building.

Today the city is fortunately recovered, thanks to the efforts of the state but also from people, compatriots and inhabitants of other countries who helped incredibly with donations. Now, despite effective reconstruction, Katrina remains the worst memory and tragedy of Americans in recent years.

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