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Other Storms that affected New Orleans


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Katrina joins a long list of storms that have changed the way we live in New Orleans. Katrina has the distinction of causing the most death and destruction of New Orleans storms. It was not the strongest, and it was not unexpected.

  • 1893 Cheniere Caminada : The town of Caminadaville was wiped out by a Category 2 Hurricane on October 1, 1893. :: Continue reading...
  • 1915 Hurricane : The 1915 hurricane is thought to have been a category 4 storm that crossed over Grand Isle and missed New Orleans by 20 miles to the west. The surge up the river overwhelmed the river levees downstream from the :: Continue reading...
  • 1947 Hurricane : The Ft. Lauderdale Hurricane first made landfall in Florida then proceeded across the Gulf to make a direct hit on New Orleans on September 19, 1947. :: Continue reading...
  • 1965 Betsy : Betsy was a fast moving Category 3 storm that made landfall at Grand :: Continue reading...
  • 1969 Camille : Everyone was on edge when just 4 years after Hurricane Betsy, an even stronger storm named Camille :: Continue reading...
  • 2005 Rita Sept 24 : Coming ashore just west of Lake Charles as a Category 3 storm, Rita flooded southwest Louisiana destroying property south of I-10 from Texas to just west of Lafayette. Unlike Hurricane Audrey which hit the same area in 1957 and caused nearly 400 deaths, Rita was responsible for only seven direct deaths. Cameron Parish was most hard hit.  Responsible for over $10 billion in damages this one one of the costliest storms in history, but in the wake of Katrina, its effects were largely overshadowed. :: Continue reading...
  • 2008 Gustav and Ike : Gustav joined Ivan as another New Orleans near miss that extracted a :: Continue reading...
  • 2012 Isaac : Seven years to the day after "the Storm" hit New Orleans it was windy for a few days. It rained and stuff blew all over the place. They called it Hurricane Isaac, :: Continue reading...
  • More Storms : :: Continue reading...
  • Risk and inconvenience : Evacuation Blues :: Continue reading...
  • San Francisco Earthquake and Fire in 1906 : Not a hurricane at all. The tectonic plates slipped 20 feet. :: Continue reading...


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    Created : 12/7/2005 11:39:37 AM Updated: 1/8/2007 3:34:04 AM

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