• when katrina hit land it had gusts reaching up to 140 mph it was catagory 5 on scale
• huricane katrina came on to land at a wind speed of 135mph
• the hurricane is the worst natural disaster since the earthquake in san francisco
• experts reckon that 1 million people became homeless
• 80% of new orleans was under water and one unfortunite town was 20feet under water
• the mayor of new orleans ordered that everybody in new orleans should be evacuated thats 485,000 people
• in new orleans one third of people are under the poverty line.one in six lacked a car so it was very hard for them to evacuate so many died