Hurricane Katrina HIT the Mississippi Coast ... New Orleans damage was a result of man-made failings. Too much MSM distortion imop.
NOLA was on Katrina's west wall, so she was hit with a moderate Cat III winds. Biloxi, Gulfport and Pascagoula were on the east wall, the worst place to be and suffered near Cat V winds. As already mentioned, NOLA's real troubles began when the levees failed. I still go back to that image of all those drowned schoolbuses and wonder "why"? All the people that were unable to leave, for one reason or another, could have been put on those buses and evacuated. Blanco and Nagin, not the President and FEMA, were responsible for the destruction and death toll in NOLA. But as always, it's Bush's fault.
Yeah from what I was told that in Mississipi bodies were strewn for several miles. And lots of bodies were found in the river.
It ALSO hit Southeast Louisiana. Very hard.
The levees were not designed for that large of a storm.
They may be calling the storm a Cat III based on the final wind speed, but that was NOT a Cat III storm surge.