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Katrina was the costliest natural disaster ever recorded in the United States. How has hurricane forecasting changed since it struck?
Twenty years ago today Hurricane Katrina slammed ashore in Louisiana as one of the costliest and deadliest U.S. disasters.
On Aug. 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall along the Gulf Coast, eventually taking thousands of lives and causing billions in damage.
Emergency leaders say the kind of mass text alert system we have now that sends weather related warnings and emergency notices would have been a game changer.
On Aug. 29, 2005, one of the most destructive storms in U.S. history slammed New Orleans, killing more than 1,800 people.
Hurricane Katrina was a major storm when it made landfall in New Orleans in August 2005. It claimed more than 1,400 lives, destroyed entire neighborhoods and caused $151 billion in damage.