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Hurricane Katrina Made Landfall – This Day in History

Posted on Friday, August 29, 2025
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by The Association of Mature American Citizens
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On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall near Buras–Triumph, Louisiana, as a Category 3 hurricane. Hurricane Katrina was one of the most powerful and devastating tropical cyclones in U.S. history. Originating as a tropical depression over the Bahamas, the storm quickly intensified, becoming a tropical storm and reaching hurricane strength as it crossed southern Florida.

With sustained winds reaching 125 mph (201 km/h). At landfall, hurricane-force winds extended up to 120 miles from the eye, and the central pressure was a notably low 920 mbar. The storm unleashed historic flooding in coastal and low-lying regions. Hurricane surge and torrential rains overwhelmed the levee systems in New Orleans, leading to catastrophic engineering failures. Within days, nearly 80 percent of New Orleans was submerged, in some places under 15 to 20 feet of water. In the Lower Ninth Ward, levee breaches caused particularly severe flooding, largely due to the city’s lack of natural protective wetlands, which had been degraded by past engineering projects.

Across the Gulf Coast—including in Alabama and Mississippi—Katrina brought widespread destruction. Coastal Alabama faced intense wind, rain, and a substantial storm surge; in Mississippi, surges reached up to 24–28 feet, particularly near Pass Christian, where waters traveled miles inland.

The human and economic toll was staggering. The hurricane claimed approximately 1,392 lives and caused an estimated $125 billion in damages, making it one of the costliest natural disasters in U.S. history. The massive failure of the levees and floodwalls has been characterized as one of the worst engineering disasters in American history.

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Max
Max
9 months ago

Much devastation to the New Orleans area that Aug 2005. Spent time there helping to clean up and repair housing.
Was this an act of God? One of the largest LGBTQ events was about to take place and this hurricane WASHED IT OUT!

Dr. Capital
Dr. Capital
9 months ago

This hurricane was a remedial judgment warning from The Lord. 

When we Christians truly understand the nearness of the call from Jesus Christ, many will have a spiritual holy fire ignited within their desires. 

They’ll then earnestly want to bring as many of the lost into the family of God as possible, seeing that the time is short.

If Christ were only a pitcher of water, we might soon exhaust his fulness, but who can drain a fountain from the oceans?

For God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance” (2 Peter 3:9).

This is you guarantee from God: No person is without a call to repentance. 

God the Holy Spirit makes it known that there is a need of the Redeemer to save them from the danger of separation from God.

Let us warn the uncertain, for the field of souls is ripe unto harvest at this critical prophetic hour. 

Here is the message to inform these souls of God’s matchless grace:
“That if you will confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and will believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart man believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation” (Romans 10:9-10). 

Dr. Capital
Dr. Capital
9 months ago

How do know we are finally at the final days of the end of the age?

The visible church of social justice and politically correct hedonism has become a rotting corpse.

We of the True Philadelphian Church of Revelation 3 are still actually healthy and alive and knows by the signs that the return of Yeshua Jesus is at hand.

From the Father Hashem, The Lord God: 

“This is what the Lord says,
he who appoints the sun
to shine by day,
who decrees the moon and stars
to shine by night,
who stirs up the sea
so that its waves roar—the Lord Almighty is his name:
 ‘Only if these decrees vanish from my sight,’
declares the Lord, ‘will Israel ever cease
being a nation before me’” (Jeremiah 31:35-36)

YOU CAN ALMOST HEAR THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE MESSIAH COMING FOR HIS BRIDE, THE TRUE BELIEVERS.

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