Historic Gulf Coast Hurricanes: How Does Laura Compare?



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Parnell McKay, the civil defense director of Pass Christian, Miss., looks over the town’s main business district on Aug. 23, 1969 after Hurricane Camille passed through.

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A large part of the city of Galveston, Texas, was reduced to rubble, as shown in this September 1900 photo, after being hit by a surprise hurricane Sept. 8, 1900.

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A photo taken on Aug. 30, 2005 shows floodwaters from Hurricane Katrina filling the streets near downtown New Orleans.

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A photo taken on Aug. 30, 2005 shows floodwaters from Hurricane Katrina filling the streets near downtown New Orleans.

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Hurricane Katrina ranks as not only the costliest-ever U.S. hurricane, but as the most expensive natural disaster in the country’s history, according to NOAA. Not only did it cost as many as 1,836 lives and leave millions of people homeless, but it left behind an estimated $160 billion worth of damage. Katrina made landfall on the Gulf Coast on Aug. 29, 2005 as a Category 3. Although New Orleans initially believed it had been spared the worst, the hurricane’s record storm surge overwhelmed levees and other flood control measures, eventually submerging 80% of the city.

Hurricane Harvey, which hit Texas and Louisiana in 2017 as a Category 4 storm, ranks as the second most costly U.S. storm, at $125 billion in damage.

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