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In one of NOAA’s technical reports, it states that “Hurricane Katrina is the most costly natural disaster ever to strike the United States, and the deadliest since the Lake Okeechobee disaster (hurricane) of September, 1928. In addition, Katrina was one of the strongest storms to impact the coast of the United States during the last 100 years” (Graumann et al. 2005).
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The information in this section is summarized based on the material presented at http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/2005/katrina.html.
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Ye, Q., Glantz, M.H. (2013). Hurricane Katrina: A Teachable Moment. In: Shi, P., Jaeger, C., Ye, Q. (eds) Integrated Risk Governance. IHDP-Integrated Risk Governance Project Series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31641-8_9
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