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  2. Effect of Hurricane Katrina on the Louisiana Superdome

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    However, when looking into the origins of the claims about 200 mph (320 km/h) wind security in the Superdome, CNN reported that no engineering study had ever been completed on the amount of wind the structure could withstand. [citation needed] The building's engineering study was underway as Hurricane Katrina approached and was put on hold. It ...

  3. Remembering the Superdome's role during Hurricane Katrina

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    More Katrina coverage on AOL.com: Facts about the impact of Hurricane Katrina: Reliving the New Orleans Saints' emotional 2005 season. More than 15,000 refugees sought shelter in the Superdome

  4. Effect of Hurricane Katrina on the New Orleans Saints

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    Hurricane Katrina devastated the city of New Orleans, Louisiana on August 29, 2005 and caused extensive damage to the Louisiana Superdome. As a result, the National Football League (NFL)'s New Orleans Saints were unable to play any home games at the Superdome for the entire 2005 NFL regular season. The dome was also used as a storm shelter for ...

  5. Effects of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans - Wikipedia

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    Hurricane Katrina made its second and third landfalls in the Gulf Coast region on Monday, August 29, 2005, as a Category 3 hurricane. Later that day, area affiliates of local television station WDSU reported New Orleans was experiencing widespread flooding due to breaches of several Army Corps-built levees, was without power, and experienced ...

  6. Hurricane preparedness in New Orleans - Wikipedia

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    The 1856 Last Island Hurricane was the first major hurricane in the Atlantic hurricane season. [1] The storm first made landfall at Last Island , [ a ] located southwest of New Orleans on the Gulf of Mexico, [ 2 ] destroyed nearly every building on the island, and killed more than 200 people of the 400 people on the island.

  7. Remembering Hurricane Katrina, 11 years later - AOL

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    On August 29, 2005 Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast -- leaving its mark as one of the strongest storms to ever impact the U.S. coast. Devastation ranged from Louisiana to Alabama to ...

  8. FEMA picks 4 NFL stadiums to serve as disaster shelters - AOL

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    When Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast in 2005, tens of thousands of people in New Orleans took shelter inside the Superdome. People were moved from the Superdome to the Astrodome in ...

  9. Effects of Hurricane Katrina in the Southeastern United States

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    Hurricane Katrina's winds and storm surge reached the Mississippi coastline on the morning of August 29, 2005, [2] [3] beginning a two-day path of destruction through central Mississippi; by 10 a.m. CDT on August 29, 2005, the eye of Katrina began traveling up the entire state, only slowing from hurricane-force winds at Meridian near 7 p.m. and ...