View Storm Surge New Orleans Hurricane Katrina Gif. Adding to the destruction following hurricane katrina, fires burn in parts of new orleans in an apocalyptic scene from early on september 3, 2005. This accumulation as the storm passed provides evidence for the fact that the right.

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It forced a storm surge that breached a system of levees built to protect new orleans. Hurricane katrina's storm surge distribution category 3 at landfall is compared against hurricane camille's storm surge. Sabine pass, texas — hurricane laura made landfall early thursday in southwestern louisiana near the texas border as a category 4 storm with a potentially unsurvivable storm surge.

See photos of new orleans, louisiana, just after hurricane katrina and one year later, on the first anniversary.

Katrina had a profound impact on the environment. Katrina had a profound impact on the environment. New orleans officials had first discussed turning the neighborhoods hit hardest by the storm into green space just a few months after katrina—and insisted it was merely coincidence that most of those. The katrina at new orleans simulations ran under a 2300 × 1600 topographic grid 170 m square with minimum and maximum water depths restricted to 3 m and 400 m, respectively.