Hurricane Katrina Damage is a photograph by David Hay Jones/science Photo Library which was uploaded on September 15th, 2018.
Hurricane Katrina Damage
Hurricane Katrina damage in Columbia, Mississippi, USA. Columbia is around 125 kilometres north of the Gulf of Mexico coast, but it is a poor area,... more
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Hurricane Katrina Damage
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David Hay Jones/science Photo Library
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Hurricane Katrina damage in Columbia, Mississippi, USA. Columbia is around 125 kilometres north of the Gulf of Mexico coast, but it is a poor area, and many buildings were destroyed and power lines were cut. Katrina was a category four hurricane when it hit the Gulf coast of the USA on 29th August 2005. It left a huge trail of damage, most notably in New Orleans. There, failure of the levee flood defences meant that around 80% of the low-lying port city was flooded. Many hundreds lost their lives. Katrina was thought to have been the most costly natural disaster in US history at the time.
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September 15th, 2018
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