Report: Explosions rock a chemical storage plant in New Orleans and other scattered fires break out.
2005-09-01
Report:
Looting, carjacking and other violence spreads,
and the military decides to increase National
Guard deployment to 30,000. Outside the New
Orleans Convention Center, the sidewalks are
packed with people without food, water or
medical care, waiting for buses that do not
come. Tempers flare. Nagin, the New Orleans mayor, calls the situation critical and issues "a desperate SOS" for more buses.
The death toll in Mississippi hits 126.
President Bush asks his father and former President Clinton to lead a fund-raising campaign for hurricane victims.
-- Texas agrees to take in 75,000 hurricaane evacuees.
Six hundred massive sand bags arrive to help shore up New Orleans' broken levees.
2005-08-30
Report:
The hurricane death toll in Mississippi rises to
more than 100. Two levees break in New Orleans and water pours in, covering 80 percent of the city and rising to 20 feet deep in some areas. Many people climb onto roofs to escape.
Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco says everyone still in New Orleans -- an estimated 50,000 to 100,000 people -- must be evacuated. Crowds swell at the Superdome and the New Orleans convention center.
2005-08-29
Hurricane
Katrina: A Category 4 hurricane with 145 mph winds.
2005-08-28
Report:
Katrina grows into a Category 5 storm with 160 mph winds and heads for the northern Gulf coast.
2005-08-27
Katrina becomes a Category 3 storm: With 115 mph winds; a hurricane warning is issued for Louisiana's southeastern coast, including New Orleans and Lake Pontchartrain, and for the northern Gulf coast.
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin declares a state of emergency and urges residents in low-lying areas to evacuate.
Eleven people dead in Florida from hurricane-related causes.
2005-08-26
Four Dead As Katrina Plows Through Florida:
Hurricane Katrina flooded streets, darkened homes and felled trees with wind gusts reaching 92 mph as it plowed through South Florida and emerged over the Gulf of Mexico early Friday. Four people were killed and 1.3 million customers were left without power.
Weather officials said flooding was the main concern as the storm dropped up to 15 inches on parts of Miami-Dade County. Katrina's plodding pace meant that strong wind and heavy rain would continue to plague throughout the day.
Rain fell in horizontal sheets, seas were estimated at 15 feet and sustained winds were measured at 80 mph as the hurricane made landfall Thursday night along the Miami-Dade and Broward line. Florida Power & Light said the vast majority of people without electricity were in the two counties.
Tropical Storm Katrina Moves Toward Florida:
Tropical Storm Katrina formed Wednesday
morning in the Bahamas and could reach hurricane
strength before hitting Florida later this week,
the National Hurricane Center said. A tropical
storm warning and a hurricane watch were posted
for a 150-mile stretch of Florida's southeast
coast from Florida City north to Vero Beach,
meaning tropical storm conditions were likely by
late Thursday.
Two More Dead as Alpine Deluge Hits Switzerland: Two people were killed and two were missing after three days of heavy rain in central and eastern Switzerland turned Alpine streams into raging torrents and triggered flooding around the country's lakes.
The latest deaths raised the total toll during the bad weather to four. Two Swiss firemen were killed on Sunday in a village near Lucerne after they were caught in a landslide.
2005-08-
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Tropical Storm Jose Nears Mexican Coast in Gulf : Jose, the 10th tropical storm of an unusually active Atlantic hurricane season, dumped heavy rain in the Gulf of Mexico on Monday and was expected to make landfall overnight near the port of Veracruz, authorities said.
None of Mexico's key oil ports farther southwest was closed to shipping, the Transport Ministry said.
Miami's National Hurricane Center said Jose, packing sustained winds of 50 mph (80 kph) and higher gusts, was expected to strengthen before making landfall.
Rains of up to 10 inches can be expected on higher ground once the storm hits land, the center said. "These storms could cause life threatening flash floods and mud slides."
It said a tropical storm warning was in place for a wide swathe of the Gulf coast, from Veracruz northwards to Cabo Rojo, which is south of Tampico port.
