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Hurricane Katrina started out like any other storm. It began on August 23rd as a tropical depression (which is a basic tropical storm) in the Bahamas the twelfth one during the 2005 hurricane season. On the 24th it had become a tropical storm and was moving through the Bahamas moving northwest/west. It kept increasing in size and strength. The following day at 6:30 pm it had reached the status of a Category One Hurricane and had started to terrorize North Miami Beach, Florida. It started to move west and made its way back over the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Typically storms decrease in size and strength as they make their way over land but Katrina was only over Florida for seven hours so it quickly regained strength over the Gulf.
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Katrina kept making its way towards the American Gulf Coast. The atmosphere and the gulf were heating up which resulted in the hurricane's intensification. On August 28th, after forty-eight hours of strengthening over the Gulf, Katrina reached winds speeds of 170 miles per hour; enough to be categorized as a Category 5 Hurricane. Most Hurricanes of that intensity don't last that long as they approach land, yet Katrina remained a constant Category 4 and was on the upper end of the scale. It reached land on August 29th and wreaked havoc over the states the border the Gulf of Mexico
Hurricane Katrina has gone down as one of the strongest Hurricanes in the last century in the United States. It was labeled the fifth strongest hurricane to hit the United States but now people are saying that Hurricane Sandy has knocked Katrina to 6th. Hurricane Katrina was the costliest Hurricane to hit the US at 75 billion dollars until Sandy cost the feds over 180 billion dollars last October.
Hurricane Katrina has gone down as one of the strongest Hurricanes in the last century in the United States. It was labeled the fifth strongest hurricane to hit the United States but now people are saying that Hurricane Sandy has knocked Katrina to 6th. Hurricane Katrina was the costliest Hurricane to hit the US at 75 billion dollars until Sandy cost the feds over 180 billion dollars last October.