Hurricane Katrina
The hurricane of 2005.
What is a hurricane?
Hurricanes are named and categorized by something called the Saffir Simpson Scale. They are categorized by their wind speed and then are given a category 1-5. They are given a name is randomly through the alphabet.
Who was Katrina?
Katrina ended up costing the U.S. about $75 billion dollars, the most costliest hurricane in history. Hurricane Katrina also reached one of the highest wind speeds, a mind blowing 175 MPH wing gust! Since Katrina was so destructive there will never be another Hurricane Katrina.
Katrina is one of the most unique hurricane for these reasons. Katrina was a category 3 when it made landfall but went to a category 5 while on land. Katrina's rain was 10-20 feet above normal tide level. It also went almost all the way across the united states.
Based on all of the facts you can assume that Katrina was one of the destructive hurricanes in history.
Damage by Katrina
This is an image of little damage that Katrina caused.
Tracking map
This is a tracking map of Katrina about to demolish every city, town, or house in her way.
Satellite image
Here is a image taken from a satellite in space. You can see that Hurricane Katrina was no laughing matter.