Some 10, had sought shelter in the Superdome, while tens of thousands of others chose to wait out the storm at home. By the time Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans early in the morning on Monday, August 29, it had already been raining heavily for hours.
Water seeped through the soil underneath some levees and swept others away altogether. Bernard Parish and the Ninth Ward were under so much water that people had to scramble to attics and rooftops for safety. Eventually, nearly 80 percent of the city was under some quantity of water. Many people acted heroically in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The Coast Guard rescued some 34, people in New Orleans alone, and many ordinary citizens commandeered boats, offered food and shelter, and did whatever else they could to help their neighbors.
Yet the government—particularly the federal government—seemed unprepared for the disaster. Officials, even including President George W. Bush , seemed unaware of just how bad things were in New Orleans and elsewhere: how many people were stranded or missing; how many homes and businesses had been damaged; how much food, water and aid was needed.
For one thing, many had nowhere to go. At the Superdome in New Orleans, where supplies had been limited to begin with, officials accepted 15, more refugees from the storm on Monday before locking the doors. City leaders had no real plan for anyone else. Tens of thousands of people desperate for food, water and shelter broke into the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center complex, but they found nothing there but chaos.
Meanwhile, it was nearly impossible to leave New Orleans: Poor people especially, without cars or anyplace else to go, were stuck. For instance, some people tried to walk over the Crescent City Connection bridge to the nearby suburb of Gretna, but police officers with shotguns forced them to turn back.
At least 1, people lost their lives in the actual hurricane and in the subsequent floods, making it the deadliest U. NATO and its partner countries responded to the United States' request for assistance with offers of food, medical supplies and equipment. This website uses cookies to improve your user experience. More information about the cookie policy on this website. These cookies are required as a minimum for the website to function properly.
These cookies collect - completely anonymously - data about the use of the website in order to provide visitors with an even better user experience. Katrina's eye was passing over the Pearl River on the Louisiana-Mississippi border. A very large storm surge ranging from 10 to 28 feet impacted much of the coastal areas across Southeast Louisiana and Coastal Mississippi. The highest and most devastating storm surge was recorded in the Bay St. Louis and Pass Christian, MS areas where storm surge heights approached 28 feet.
Extreme devastation was recorded along the Mississippi coast due to the combination of storm surge and battering waves with very few structures left standing. In Southeast Louisiana, storm surge values ranged from 10 to 20 feet and impacted areas extending from Terrebonne Parish to the Northshore communities of Lake Pontchartrain including Mandeville and Slidell.
Extensive damage to structures was observed throughout these areas. The storm surge overtopped the federal levee system in Orleans and St.
Bernard Parishes leading to levee failures and extensive flooding of homes in these parishes. The devastation caused by the storm surge of Hurricane Katrina resulted in one of the largest displacements of a population since the Great Depression. The following are some images of the destruction caused by the wind and storm surge of Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana and Mississippi.
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Still, about , people were trapped in the city when the storm hit , and many took last-ditch refuge in the New Orleans Superdome and the Ernest J. Morial Convention Center as the storm approached. Some 25, crowded into the convention center, while more than 25, filled the Superdome. As Katrina moved inland over Mississippi, it weakened to a Category 1 hurricane and later to a tropical storm.
By 11 a. Meanwhile, flooding continued to worsen in New Orleans. The arrival of 13, U. National Guard troops and 7, U. Bush helped with evacuations and resupplying food and water to those stranded at the Superdome and convention center, all of whom were finally evacuated on September 3. Many Katrina evacuees made it to Houston, Texas, where they were housed in the Astrodome and other shelters.
The Data Center , a New Orleans-based research organization, estimated that the storm and subsequent flooding displaced more than 1 million people, leaving hundreds of thousands of people homeless.
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