10th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina

This Saturday, August 29th, marks the 10th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. The State hardest hit by the storm was Louisiana.

Katrina's Hurricane caused 53 different levee breaches in greater New Orleans, submerging eighty percent of the city. A June 2007 report by the American Society of Civil Engineers indicated that two-thirds of the flooding were caused by the multiple failures of the city's floodwalls.

The storm surge also devastated the coasts of Mississippi and Alabama, making Katrina the most destructive and costliest Natural Disaster in the history of the United States, and the deadliest hurricane since the 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane.

The total damage from Katrina is estimated at $108 billion (2005 U.S. dollars).

The confirmed death toll is 1,836, with one fatality in Kentucky, two each in Alabama, Georgia, and Ohio, 14 in Florida, 238 in Mississippi, and 1,577 in Louisiana. 135 people remain categorized as missing in Louisiana, and many of the deaths are indirect. The exact causes of some of the fatalities have yet to be determined.

DEATHS BY STATE

Alabama 2
Florida 14
Georgia 2
Kentucky 1
Louisiana 1,577
Mississippi 238
Ohio 2
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Total 1,836
Missing 135