Tomorrow, Sunday, August 29, 2010 will mark the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's landfall in Louisiana. Five years ago, Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, centered on New Orleans, as a Category 3 hurricane. More than fifty levees were breached by its storm surge, causing massive flooding.
Over 1,800 Gulf Coast residents lost their lives then, and damages totaled more than $80 billion. Many intangible things were damaged then as well, communities were erased as their neighborhoods washed away, and much of historic New Orleans was badly damaged.
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