Hurricane Katrina:
- In 2005, a tropical storm hit close to the Louisiana and Mississippi border on August 29th.
- Katrina was formed in the Caribbean Sea
- The total cost of damage was around $100 billion dollars
- Approximately 1,800 people died
- Hurricane Katrina had:
Strong Winds
Large flooding
- Many of the African American and poor people in the region did not evacuate because:
They were warned previous times but nothing happened
They did not trust the government