"When the levees broke, after Hurricane Katrina passed over New Orleans in 2005, it's inhabitants feared their city would die."
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Cécile Vidal, Caribbean New Orleans: Empire, Race, and the Making of a Slave Society, p. 1 (2009)
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Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina was a large and destructive Category 5 Atlantic hurricane that caused over 1,800 fatalities and $125 billion in damage in late August 2005, especially in the city of New Orleans and the surrounding areas. It was at the time the costliest tropical cyclone on record and is now tied with 2017's Hurricane Harvey. The storm was the twelfth tropical cyclone, the fifth hurricane, and the third major hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, as well as the fourth-most intense At
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