It officially reached hurricane status two days later, when it passed over southeastern Miami as a Category 1 storm. Katrina first formed as a tropical depression in Caribbean waters near the Bahamas on August 23, 2005. As of this writing, the population had grown back to nearly 80 percent of where it was before the hurricane. The population of New Orleans fell by more than half in the year after Katrina, according to Data Center Research. The damage was so extensive that some pundits had argued, controversially, that New Orleans should be permanently abandoned, even as the city vowed to rebuild. The city of New Orleans and other coastal communities in Katrina's path remain significantly altered more than a decade after the storm, both physically and culturally. ( What are hurricanes, cyclones, and typhoons?) Ten years after the disaster, then-President Barack Obama said of Katrina, "What started out as a natural disaster became a man-made disaster-a failure of government to look out for its own citizens."
Katrina's victims tended to be low income and African American in disproportionate numbers, and many of those who lost their homes faced years of hardship.
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The devastating aftermath of Hurricane Katrina exposed a series of deep-rooted problems, including controversies over the federal government's response, difficulties in search-and-rescue efforts, and lack of preparedness for the storm, particularly with regard to the city's aging series of levees-50 of which failed during the storm, significantly flooding the low-lying city and causing much of the damage. An estimated 1,200 people died as a direct result of the storm, which also cost an estimated $108 billion in property damage, making it the costliest storm on record. Because of the ensuing destruction and loss of life, the storm is often considered one of the worst in U.S. It hit land as a Category 3 storm with winds reaching speeds as high as 120 miles per hour. Hurricane Katrina made landfall off the coast of Louisiana on August 29, 2005.
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