Hurricane Katrina

On the August 29th 2005 Hurricane Katrina passed east of New Orleans. New Orleans is situated along the Mississippi river. All though the harshest part of Katrina missed the city the results where dreadful. It ended up being one of the worst engineering disasters in history due to the flooding of the levee breaches. Over 75% of New Orleans was flooded within 2 days of the flood. Around 90% of people evacuated due to the floods but people such as the elderly and the poor didn’t want to move. Many of these people who didn’t evacuate had to swim for there lives or get trapped on the roofs of their houses. Most of the main roads traveling in and out of the city where damaged by the hurricane so the traffic out of the city was terrible. It is said that the cost of the damages is around $200 billion, which made hurricane Katrina one of most expensive hurricanes ever in the United States.