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Katrina Babies details the close-knit families and vibrant communities of New Orleans whose lives were uprooted by the 2005 disaster. These American children who were airlifted out of the rising waters, evacuated from their homes to refugee-like centers, or placed in makeshift, temporary living situations, have been neglected.
Survivors walk to high ground after Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans, Louisiana, in 2005. While Katrina did not make landfall as a Category 5 storm, it brought staggering damage and loss of life ...
“Slicing through the eyeball of a hurricane, buffeted by howling winds, blinding rain and violent updrafts and downdrafts before entering the relative calm of the storm’s eye, NOAA’s two ...
NASA's DC-8 research aircraft flying through the eyewall and into the eye. Though the eye is by far the calmest and quietest part of the storm (at least on land), with no wind at the center and typically clear skies, it is possibly the most hazardous area on the ocean. In the eyewall, wind-driven waves all travel in the same direction.
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 ...
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 ...
Because RAINEX was planned in advance of the 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season, it did fly in to Hurricane Katrina among other storms. Hurricane Katrina followed a very similar track to a later storm in this season (Hurricane Rita); however, Katrina did not undergo eyewall replacement during its time in the Gulf of Mexico. RAINEX flights into ...
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