Hurricane Katrina Information
Hurricane Katrina – August 29, 2005. Many will long remember this date.
Hurricane Katrina Information:
At 6:10 a.m., Hurricane Katrina hit
the Louisiana coast as a Category 4 hurricane with winds of 140 mph, a
storm surge of 24 feet and barometric pressure of 920 mb. Wind gusts
were recorded in excess of 200 mph. She
weakened from a Category 5 hurricane with winds of 175 mph just prior to
making landfall on the Louisiana coast. She was an enormous storm,
covering most of the Gulf of Mexico. The
calm of her 30-mile eye lasted an eerie two hours in Empire.
Hurricane Katrina not only caused devastation on the Louisiana coast but also along the Mississippi and Alabama coasts. Thousands of people from Louisiana to Alabama were left homeless and jobless.