Because hurricane Katrina hit
Hurricane Andrew was in 1992. Hurricane Katrina was in 2005.
New Orleans population is between 360,000 or 380,000.Wikipedia has New Orleans' population at 469,000 which would be a higher population pre Katrina. I don't know where those figures come from because there are still a lot of neighborhoods that are still half empty. But the fact is New Orleans is 75% of it's pre Katrina population of 450,000.
Not the famous Hurricane Katrina of 2005, which devastated New Orleans, no. That storm developed near the Bahamas, crossed Florida, and finally stuck the U.S. Gulf coast. However, hurricane names that are not retired come up for re-use every six years. As of 2005, no future storm will ever be named Katrina, but in 1981 a differed hurricane also named Katrina made landfall in Cuba. The storm was a category 1 hurricane that killed two people. Other than some crops destroyed by flooding damage was minimal.
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Hurricane Rita came about a month after Hurricane Katrina, making landfall on the Gulf Coast in late September 2005. Both hurricanes had devastating impacts on the region and caused widespread destruction and loss of life.
I live in New Orleans, so I am the perfect person to ask this question to. This is what happened: 1. It flooded people's houses so high, that they had to wait on top of the roof for someone to come and get them. 2. It destroyed homes, businesses, and families. 3. People died.
Yes, hurricane Katrina did come near Columbia, Mississippi. It actually came ashore near the boarder of Mississippi and Louisiana and created a giant disaster area as it crossed land.
There are currently no plans to reopen Six Flags New Orleans after it closed in 2005 due to damage from Hurricane Katrina. The property remains abandoned and in ruins, with no announced redevelopment plans.
hurricane katrina location #1 mississippi's biloxi /diamond head/ waveland/mosspoint/pascagoula/oceansprings/and all surrounding area's basically the whole state but mostly the bottom and middle. new orleans had the most deaths but mississippi had way more of the storms power the quadrant hit it
Yes, It Did. I Was actually 6 when that happened. And we didnt have water for 8 days. And a guy had to come bring food in a truck! It Was Horrible. I Lived In a Trailor house too!
There were a number of reasons. Many underestimated how bad the storm would be. Some had already experienced hurricanes and had come out unscathed, and so figured this would be the same. Some people were afraid to leav their homes behind. Many of the poor resiedents in the path of the storm did not have the means to evacuate.