Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Louisiana as a Category 3 storm on August 29, 2005.

Over 1800 lost their lives in the storm, and Katrina ultimately caused over $100Billion of damage.

The storm made a direct hit on New Orleans on 29 August 2005.

The city's dated system of levees and flood walls failed in more than 50 places, flooding 85 percent of the bowl-like city, most of which is below sea level.

The storm produced images never before seen in an American city: desperate masses wading through flooded neighbourhoods, bodies decomposing on city streets, and residents on rooftops pleading for help.

A million people had fled the area before Katrina arrived, but tens of thousands had lacked the means or ability to get out.

Many sought refuge at the city's Superdome, converted to an enormous relief shelter.

Hundreds of others were plucked from the rooftops of their inundated houses by military helicopters and taken to the city's convention centre.


August 30, 2005: An aerial view shows floodwaters covering streets in New Orleans. It was estimated that 80% of the city was underwater as levees began to break and flood making way into the city.




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Lalasticlala, Mynd44

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August 31, 2005: An aerial photograph shows a levee giving way to high water in New Orleans. Floodwaters engulfed much of New Orleans after the historic city's defences were breached by Hurricane Katrina.


August 30, 2005: Residents wait to be rescued on the roof of their house, surrounded by dangerously high water.


August 29, 2005: The Treme area of New Orleans lies under several feet of water after Hurricane Katrina hit


August 29, 2005: People walk down a flooded street after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, Louisiana.

August 30, 2005: A woman is airlifted to safety by a coastguard helicopter in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.

August 29, 2005: A dog waits to be rescued on the side roof of a house in New Orleans.

August 30, 2005: A man paddles on a floating door along a flooded street in New Orleans.

August 30, 2005: The damaged roof of the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans.

Just like yesterday. May the departed souls rest in peace.

August 31, 2005: Houses that were damaged by the hurricane and swept away by water are seen in a flooded neighbourhood of New Orleans.

August 31, 2005: A man paddles a canoe in high water after Hurricane Katrina devastated the area.

August 31, 2005 : People cross Flood Street in a boat.

August 31, 2005: A submerged police car is seen in the east of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina devastated the area.

August 31, 2005: Earl Dunbar of the Louisiana State Capitol Police carries a five-day-old baby, an evacuee brought to the Superdome for treatment. The mother said she had been trapped in her home after Hurricane Katrina hit.

August 31, 2005: Prison inmates are held at the end of a sunken highway in New Orleans, Louisiana.


September 1, 2005: A woman gives her dog food and water, seemingly unaware of a dead body floating in the water below.

September 2, 2005: Hurricane Katrina survivors are evacuated from the Superdome in New Orleans.

September 2, 2005: A National Guard soldier helps move an elderly woman at the New Orleans convention centre.

September 2, 2005: Heavily armed police patrol past Hurricane Katrina survivors outside the New Orleans Convention Centre.

September 2, 2005: Stretcher beds are laid out at the Reliant Centre in Houston to provide shelter for people bused from New Orleans.

September 2, 2005: Thousands of refugees fill the floor of the Astrodome in Houston, Texas.

September 4, 2005: Hurricane Katrina survivors are stacked five high as they are evacuated from New Orleans to Naval Air Station Jacksonville in Florida, aboard a US Air Force Reserve Command C-130 Hercules aircraft.

September 4, 2005: A man clings to the top of a vehicle before being rescued by the US Coast Guard from the flooded streets of New Orleans.

September 11, 2005: A house is marked with the words 'Dead Body Inside' and 'Help'.



September 10, 2005: A helicopter drops sandbags to help repair the London Street canal levee in New Orleans.

September 18, 2005: An aerial view of destruction in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans.

September 26,2005: An aerial view of areas of the Ninth Ward in New Orleans, still flooded after being battered by Hurricanes Katrina.

Children brought to safety mid-air by the national guard.

A woman and her newborn await evacuation at the New Orleans Convention Center.

blacks dominance

I wonder what would be our fate in this country if we also experience these disasters. GRATEFUL

Families eagerly receive food and water dropped from military helicopters.

Families wading through water in search of shelter.

A makeshift grave for a body that remained on a sidewalk for days.

Chickasaw Nation search and rescuer Casey Kelley, of Ada, Oklahoma, can only watch as his rescue boat makes its way past a home with a dead body floating in the front yard in New Orleans, Sept. 7, 2005.

Seven pit bull dogs that had survived in a cage in a New Orleans neighborhood and were rescued by New Orleans police officers accompanied by New York volunteers are turned over to the U.S. Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Saturday, Sept. 10, 2005.

Armed Texas game wardens surround a group of individuals who stole a mail truck to escape the flooded areas of New Orleans East, Aug. 31, 2005. The people were freed but had to continue on foot.

Mark Benton, of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, helps to rescue 3-month-old Ishmael Sullivan from a school rooftop after he and his mother were trapped with dozens of others in high water from Hurricane Katrina, Aug. 30, 2005, in New Orleans.

The Interstate 90 bridge over St. Louis Bay in Pass Christian, Mississippi, is folded and destroyed from the high wind and waves of Hurricane Katrina, Aug. 30, 2005.

Fire rescue officials talk as they check on the body of a man killed in a car accident when he lost control of his vehicle as Hurricane Katrina struck on the I-10 highway outside of Pensacola, Florida, Aug. 29, 2005.


Residents wait on a rooftop to be rescued from the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, Sept. 1, 2005.


A residential area in Gulfport, Mississippi, is seen inundated with shipping containers, RVs and boats, all washed ashore by Hurricane Katrina, on Aug. 30, 2005.


A Navy helicopter drops boxes of food and bottled water onto the roof of a public school for a man in New Orleans’ flooded 9th Ward on Sept. 5, 2005.

A coffin displaced by the floodwaters following Hurricane Katrina sits on the side of Highway 23 on Sept. 7, 2005.

A dog sits stranded on a rooftop in the flooded Lower 9th Ward neighborhood in New Orleans on Aug. 29, 2005.

Evelyn Turner cries alongside the body of her common-law husband, Xavier Bowie, after he died in New Orleans, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005.

A catastrophic day in the history of United States.

Hmmmm...the thoughts alone is scary

OceanmorganTrix:

I wonder what would be our fate in this country if we also experience these disasters. GRATEFUL

God help us

This is scary.

I recall how George Bush was badly blamed for not sending federal help on time...

Because most of the victims happen to be African American (Allegedly sha )

...i remembered driving through New Orleans 6 months after the hurricane, the devastation was still visible...turned a once beautiful part of the US into an underdevelopment 3rd world nation...so bad that the government of George W. Bush didn't act on time to save human lives...of course there's little that can be done to properties, once the leevees broke...

It's either explorers or it's not interesting/educative.


I'm suspecting this guy might be seunn himself

Thank God for Nigeria for if we are situated in all of these danger zones with these bad leaders eh, na dead be our own

AFRICA is obviously the safest continent. What a disaster!

very tragedic

Any time I remember the weather prediction that coastal towns such as Lagos would be submerged by Atlantic ocean in 50 years to come ,fear dey catch me.