Katrina
It wasn’t the storm, it was the levees.
It wasn’t Nature, it was man.
The Weather Underground’s Hurricane Katrina tracking map.
An animation of the National Hurricane Center’s tracking maps. If you stop the animation and step to frame 13 you will see that they had Katrina coming to my house for a while.
The track on Google map from the Central Florida Hurricane Center so you can see exactly where the storm struck, and it wasn’t New Orleans.
Katrina did have top sustained winds of 175 mph with a pressure of 902 millibars, a Category 5 storm, but that was in the central Gulf of Mexico. It came ashore as a Category 3 hurricane to the East of New Orleans. There was minimal wind damage in the city from the hurricane.
Wikipedia has a nice article on Katrina, without going totally technical on the science behind hurricanes.
