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== =Hurricane Katrina=

The defistating event of Hurricane Katrina happened on August 29, 2005. The winds that hit the down town area were catagorie 3 on the scale and had horrible gusts come through as well. In New Orleans the storm surge caused more than 50 breaches in drainage canal levees and also in navigational canal levees and precipitated the worst engineering disaster in the history of the United States. A couple of days later on August 31, 80% of New Orleans was flooded With some parts of land under as much as 15 feet of water . Most of the Levees that were built by USA Corp people busted and caused most of the flooding, including the 17th street Canal levee. It got so bad that the oil flow stopped and they couldnt work on oil so the cost went up dramatically world wide. The effects of this flood were long lasting. If the levees did not break the flood probably wouldnt have ruined most of the city. In this tragedy there were as many as 1836 deaths that they know of to this day!