Hurricane Katrina Final

Hurricane Katrina was a natural disaster that occured from August 23, 2015 to August 31, 2015 . It was ranked the costliest natural disaster ever recored with a whopping 108 billion dollars of damage. The state most effected by the hurricane was Louisiana. The reason why there were effected the most because the city, New Orleans, is 6 feet below sea level . Their levee system, which was built in the 20th century, was aging and could not beat the powerful storm that was coming. It has been 1,600 people dead and most of the people that could not be saved was over the 74. The second state with the most deaths was Mississippi with 238. The state of Louisiana and the congress passed and act to help the state with their levee systems just in case something bad as Katrina happens again. The 10 year anniversary was roughly about 2 and a half weeks ago and even today some parts of NO are still effected by the hurricane.