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19 years post Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana continues to reflect
By Raeven Poole,
17 hours ago
NEW ORLEANS ( WGNO ) — Thursday, Aug. 29 marks the 19th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, a storm to remember for years to come as it changed the trajectory of the City of New Orleans and the state of Louisiana’s infrastructure.
At 6:10 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 29, 2005, the Category 3 storm made landfall in Buras, Louisiana, a small town in Plaquemines Parish. The winds sustained speeds of 125 mph heading north at 15 mph.
By 8:12 a.m., power across the state was lost and the first levee breech was reported, sending 15 to 20 feet of the Mississippi River into New Orleans streets and neighborhood, inundating 80% of the city.
Aerial photos showed the aftermath of residents asking for help while trapped on the roofs of their homes in the Lower Ninth Ward and throughout the city.
Views of inundated areas in New Orleans following breaking of the levees surrounding the city as the result of Hurricane Katrina. (Image credit: NOAA Corps, Lieut. Commander Mark Moran)
Satellite imagery of Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005, about 105 miles south of the mouth of the Mississippi River. (Image: NOAA)
FILE – Floodwaters from Hurricane Katrina cover a portion of New Orleans on Aug. 30, 2005. The COVID-19 pandemic greatly accelerated a long-running pattern in giving by foundations and charities for health and natural disasters, a new Chronicle analysis of nine years of data show. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)
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Officials with the National Weather Service reported Katrina birthed five tornadoes in the Louisiana and Mississippi areas.
Every year since the storm, New Orleans representatives, the city council, elected officials and other community leaders lay a wreath at the memorial site where almost 100 unclaimed or unidentified victims are interred.
The memorial is within the boundary of Charity Hospital Cemetary.
Officials with St. Bernard Parish also held a ceremony at Shell Beach where they read the names of 164 residents who lost their lives. A wreath was laid in the Mississippi River by surviving family members.
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