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New Orleans also suffers sporadic power outages, but escapes with only minor flooding. June 23–24, 2012 – Initially forecast to brush the state as a hurricane, [25] Tropical Storm Debby prompted a state of emergency. [26] The storm ultimately tracked far right of early predictions and struck Florida.
Memorial Medical Center [a] in New Orleans, Louisiana was heavily damaged when Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005. [1] In the aftermath of the storm, while the building had no electricity and went through catastrophic flooding after the levees failed, Dr. Anna Pou, along with other doctors and nurses, attempted to continue caring for patients. [2]
A view from the ground in New Orleans after Hurricane Ida slams into the city, 16 years to the day after Hurricane Katrina.
Hurricane Betsy slammed into Grand Isle on the evening of September 9, 1965. 110 mph (180 km/h) winds and power failures were reported in New Orleans. [87] The eye of the storm passed to the southwest of New Orleans on a northwesterly track.
U.S. Army Infantry on patrol in New Orleans in an area previously underwater, September 2005. A Border Patrol Special Response Team searches a hotel room-by-room in New Orleans in response to Hurricane Katrina. Shortly after the hurricane moved away on August 30, 2005, some residents of New Orleans who remained in the city began looting stores.
Sixteen years to the day that Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed the levees of New Orleans, Hurricane Ida crashed ashore, coming within 30 miles of the city's downtown as the storm tracked inland.
Satellite photos of New Orleans taken in March 2004, then on August 31, 2005, after the levee failures. However, the city’s levee and flood walls designed and built by the US Army Corps of Engineers breached in over fifty locations. Additionally, the levees were built on soil that vary in compression and consolidation rates. [35]
It was the first hurricane to affect oil refining in the Gulf of Mexico. The tropical cyclone led to flooding in New Orleans, and broke a drought across the eastern United States. The death toll was 15, and total damages reached $24.8 million (1956 USD). [2] [3]