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Hurricane Katrina by the Numbers, 20 years later

On Aug. 19, 2005, a tropical wave formed in the Caribbean, one of many that hurricane season. But this one would evolve into one of the most devastating storms in U.S. history. Ten days later, after ...
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Reflections on Katrina: 20 years later

NEW ORLEANS — Author’s note: I am a native New Orleanian who developed the models NHC uses to forecast storm surge and wrote FEMA’s hurricane response playbook. At the time of Katrina, I was a ...
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Why Hurricane Katrina was so uniquely catastrophic — and remains America's most devastating storm, 20 years later

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Water surrounds homes in the devastated Ninth Ward in this aerial view of damage from Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. (Smiley N.
The Conversation

Hurricane Katrina: 3 painful lessons for emergency management are increasingly important 20 years later

Eric Stern has recently received funding from DHS Science and Technology for an extreme weather informatics project and from NOAA for work on extreme heat events. He has lectured at the National ...
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20 years later: Remembering Hurricane Katrina

It has been 20 years since Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, causing the deaths of more than a thousand people and leaving hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of damage in its wake. A ...