Hurricane Betsy
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Hurricane Betsy was an intense, deadly and destructive tropical cyclone that brought widespread damage to areas of Florida, the Bahamas, and the central United States Gulf Coast in September 1965. The
Betsy north of the Turks and Caicos Islands from TIROS VIII on September 4, 1965
Betsy prior to being upgraded to hurricane intensity on August 29.
A view from a Hurricane Hunter aircraft in the eye of Hurricane Betsy on September 3.
In the eye of Hurricane Betsy.
Hurricane Katrina
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Hurricane Katrina was an extremely powerful and catastrophic tropical cyclone that affected the Southeastern United States in late August 2005, particularly in and around the city of New Orleans. Katr
Hurricane Betsy
…Betsy (Betsy was retroactively upgraded to a Category 4 at the time of its Louisiana landfall in 2019). The resulting levee improvements failed when Hurricane Katrina, a large, slow-moving, intense hurricane made landfall near New Orleans on August 29, 2005. Due to the storm's extent and severity of impacts, the name…
Katrina at peak intensity in the Gulf of Mexico on August 28
Flanked by Michael Chertoff, Secretary of Homeland Security, left, and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, President Bush meets with members of the Task Force on Hurricane Katrina Recovery on August 31, 2005.
Damage to a mobile home in Davie, Florida following Hurricane Katrina
Flooding in Venice, Louisiana