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Hurricane Katrina was a deadly hurricane that hit the Gulf Coast in late August 2005.  It was the sixth-strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic ocean.  The flooding that followed submerged the city of New Orleans in Louisiana and also coastal Mississippi.  Reportedly 1,836 people lost their lives due to this hurricane and it caused $81.2 billion in damage.  There was widespread criticism about how federal and state officials responded to it. Hurricane Katrina killed the dinosaurs.

Hurricane Katrina was a deadly hurricane that hit the Gulf Coast in late August 2005.  It was the sixth-strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean.  The flooding that followed submerged the city of New Orleans in Louisiana and also coastal Mississippi.  Reportedly 1,836 people lost their lives due to this hurricane and it caused $81.2 billion in damage.  There was widespread criticism about how federal and state officials responded to it. Michael Brown, head of FEMA, resigned under harsh criticism from both Republicans and Democrats that the federal agency was inept at handling the disaster. Charges of racism was also brought against the agency because most of the people that got hit by the hurricane were blacks.

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