Environmental Consequences Of Hurricane Katrina

In 2005 the United States of America was overtaken by one of the most destructive natural disasters it had ever faced. Hurricane Katrina, a Category 5 storm which passed over the Gulf of Mexico and landed on the shores of New Orleans. As one of the top five deadliest hurricanes, this natural disaster changed the geological landscape and in 2016 there are still scars on Louisiana from this tragedy. In the beginning of the storm, which developed to be one of the most violent hurricanes in United States’ history, it began a large Category 3 hurricane which traveled passed the Bahamas. In Katrina’s initial formation, it was “about 200 miles southeast of the Bahamas on August 23, 2005, as a tropical depression, according to the NOAA. A well-defined …show more content…
For example, one could study the movements and changes that Hurricane Katrina underwent before, during, and after it hit land. When air pressure and the anticyclone that strengthens the hurricane from a Category 3 to a Category 5 affected the size of the storm. Hurricane Katrina, as a storm of large proportions, will be an event that will examined in the study of the drastic changes that a tropical storm or hurricane might endure and what the consequences of misjudging the size and strength might …show more content…
For instance, “Within twenty-four hours, Katrina’s ferocious winds, storm surge, and heavy rains would devastate the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Mississippi, obliterating costal communities and devastating New Orleans. According to the National Weather Service, Katrina, with a minimum central air pressure of 920 mb, was the third most intense hurricane (after the ‘Labor Day’ hurricane of 1935 and Hurricane Camille in 1969) to make landfall in the U.S. since reliable records began in 1851. Katrina directly claimed about 1200 lives, and more than 600 fatalities were indirectly linked to Katrina. In economic loss, Katrina ranks as the most destructive hurricane to strike the