Compare And Contrast Katrina Vs Harvey

Katrina vs. Harvey According to NASA, hurricanes are the most violent storms on Earth. Most of them, as reported by the National Weather Service’s Climate Prediction Center, hit during the peak of hurricane season, which is between August and October on both the Atlantic and the Eastern Pacific coasts. The two most memorable hurricanes—Katrina and Harvey—made their landfall in the United States in August. In addition to this, the two hurricanes share many other similarities and differences. These similarities and differences vary in measurement, costs of damages, and deaths. On 29 August 2005, Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast, or more specifically, in New Orleans. A day before the storm came, a mandatory evacuation was ordered by the mayor. Though many were lucky enough to get out, approximately one hundred thousand people remained. Those who decided to stay or were stuck in the city endured winds of one hundred to one hundred forty miles per hour and a flood caused by levee breaches. The aftermath …show more content…
Rainfall topped fifty inches in some areas, which resulted in massive flooding and homes being overtaken by water. Though Harvey was noticeably less damaging than Katrina, the costs for damages were around the same. Fortunately, the death toll stayed under one hundred just as it became the country’s first major hurricane since Wilma in October 2005. Despite their differences, the two infamous storms also share some similarities. Many Americans during both of these hurricanes indirectly and directly helped by donating or volunteering. Katrina and Harvey left houses all over the region without power and tens of thousands of homes were either damaged or destroyed in their midst, but in the end, Harvey and Katrina brought the country together in a way that only natural disasters