Hurricane Katrina
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"Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job!"
Hurricane Katrina formed in the middle of August, 2005, tripped lightly over Florida, then turned into a monster that on August 28 drowned most of the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico, most notably the city of New Orleans. Hundreds of thousands of people were displaced, and the waterlogged wreckage remains behind in a great many areas.
Katrina in particular is known for FEMA's failure to provide evacuation capabilities before the storm and adequate relief aid in the immediate aftermath, despite the National Weather Service delivering a pinpoint-accurate prediction of Katrina's impending advance and a historically graphic severe weather warning that turned out to be far more true than not.
