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Hurricane Katrina: Inside The Biggest Rescue Mission In Coast Guard History

In August 2005, a Category 3 hurricane hit the Gulf coast, with winds raging between 120 and 140 mph. Despite a mandatory ...
The New Yorker

The Hidden Devastation of Hurricanes

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( NOAA ), the average tropical cyclone, a category that ...

Wild Wonderful Weather: Remembering Hurricane Katrina, 20 years later

In this week’s episode, our meteorologists look back at Hurricane Katrina and recount our stories of what we saw from ...
The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Calif. Wildfire Victims Benefit from Katrina Lessons

Are the victims of the California wildfires benefiting from the lessons America learned in its botched response to Hurricane Katrina? Peter Apps, who writes a blog on AlertNet, a Web site on ...
The New York Times

Hurricane Melissa Maxed Out What Scientists Thought Was Possible

Mr. Gerard was a meteorologist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for 35 years, and helped forecast some of America’s largest weather-related disasters, including Hurricane Katrina ...