Making landfall on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans with enormous force. The city had faced deadly storms previously, including Hurricane Betsy in 1965, which caused extensive ...

was the deadliest single storm in the United States since Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Hurricanes Beryl and Milton were also deadly, each killing more than 40 people in the United States.

When it made landfall in southeastern Louisiana, Katrina was a Category 3 hurricane with winds of 125 mph, but the devastating storm surge and flooding caused most of the death and destruction.

IT’S HARD TO LOOK BACK. I DON’T LIKE TO LOOK BACK AT KATRINA. IT WAS DEVASTATING. WELL, HAPPENING NOW. DAY TWO OF THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER CONFERENCE IS GOING ON, AS YOU JUST HEARD THERE.