Hurricane damage
Hurricane Katrina, which demolished coastal Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama states, became the costliest natural disaster in the US history. Latest records say death toll has passed 1,163 people with a total economic damage of about $200 billion. This NOAA aerial photograph shows one the hardest hit areas of the hurricane, Biloxi city region, east to New Orleans city of Louisiana. See the completely collapsed bridge and other damage locations (red arrows). The damage accompanied with after-hurricane flood caused by broken levee system that protect New Orleans city from Lake Pontchartrain. Estimated 1 million people displaced and about 5 million people lost power connection. Katrina was a category 5 hurricane and also was the 11th of the 21 storms hit in this hurricane season.