Katrina
It wasn’t the storm, it was the levees.
It wasn’t Nature, it was man.
This is the 10th anniversary of the drowning of New Orleans, and almost nothing has been done to rejuvenate the Lower Ninth Ward.
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.
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.
