Hurricane news for individual counties and cities in Louisiana, Mississippi
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September 1, 2005
Hurricane Katrina left a path of destruction in its wake across Louisiana, Mississippi, and other southern states. If an effort to provide timely and location-specific information, below is a list of news article links for individual counties and cities across the region.
Hurricane Katrina was a powerful tropical cyclone which caused extensive and severe damage in the southeastern United States and will likely become the worst natural disaster to hit the United States with major global economic consequences caused by disruption of oil supplies, exports, and imports. Disaster relief plans are in operation in the affected communities. Some experts predict one million people could become homeless as a result of the storm. Currently five million people are without power in the Gulf Coast region, and it may be two months before all power is restored.
The aftermath of the storm compounded problems. In particular, the breaching of some levees protecting New Orleans caused water to flow unabated into the city. There was also widespread looting, with many people stranded due to flooding.
Katrina may be the deadliest hurricane in the United States of America since the Galveston Hurricane of 1900, which killed around 8,000 (possibly up to 12,000) people. The death toll of Katrina so far may be "in the thousands", stated by the New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin on August 31, but it will take weeks before accurate numbers are known. Katrina is also expected to be the costliest natural disaster in United States history, exceeding the 1992 Hurricane Andrew.
Photos from inside Hurricane Katrina captured by NOAA plane: NOAA hurricane hunter WP-3D Orion and Gulfstream IV aircraft conducted ten long flights into and around the eye of Hurricane Katrina. Lt. Mike Silah, a P-3 pilot, got to see Hurricane Katrina up close and personal, especially when she was an extremely dangerous Category Five storm in the Gulf of Mexico.
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