Hurricane Katrina
The disastrous hit of hurricane Katrina to southern coast of the US became the worst storm disaster in known American history. Heavy rain and high sea waves drowned New Orleans, the city of 480,000 people in seawater. This MODIS satellite image shows a closer view of deadly Katrina, before its landfall. This report wrote after the landfall and latest information indicated some hundreds of people might have killed by the disaster. In yesterday's MODIS image, the flooded region is visible through clouds (figure 01). Over 80% of the New Orleans city flooded and damage easily passed US$ 25 billion within first few days.