People living in the Big Easy, also known as New Orleans, still vividly remember Hurricane Katrina. It swept through the area and took crops, along with some people’s most prized possessions. The 2005 hurricane that killed 1,800 people and destroyed over 100,000 homes. More people died in Katrina than any other hurricane since 1928.

The city of New Orleans is still recovering from the after effects of Katrina. People believe that meterologists are always true to their word, but sometimes even professionals are wrong about their information as was the case with Katrina.

What was most surprising about the disaster was that all of the things the city spent their money on such as levees, and communication wound up failing the city. After the storm, the citizens were left on rooftops sitting in the blazing southern heat for days waiting for rescue.

During Hurricane Katrina, the Mercedes-Benz Superdome was known as the Louisiana Superdome, the dome was used as a “shelter of last resort” to the thousands of people that were unable to evacuate the city.

Katrina was the costliest hurricane in U.S. history, with having more than $89.6 Billion in damages. Oil and forest industries suffered a big blow, forcing thousands out of a job which impacted taxes.                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Ceremonies commemorating the incident were under way Saturday in multiple locations across the New Orleans area.