{"id":15442,"date":"2018-08-29T15:03:25","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T19:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=15442"},"modified":"2018-08-29T15:03:25","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T19:03:25","slug":"photos-hurricane-katrinas-destruction-from-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2018\/08\/photos-hurricane-katrinas-destruction-from-the-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Hurricane Katrina&#8217;s destruction from the air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thirteen years ago today, Hurricane Katrina came onshore in eastern Louisiana. While the winds were down to 75-80 mph, the storm surge was massive, in some places higher than 28 feet, and wiped out blocks along the coastline stretching from the Florida Panhandle well across most of Louisiana. Two days later, New Orleans started to flood as the levees collapsed from the force of all the water, resulting in a catastrophe that included the deaths of over 1,700 people and became the costliest hurricane in US history. <em>Quartz<\/em> has provided some photos to remind us of just how devastating that storm was.\u00a0 You can view them at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1372247\/the-destruction-wrought-by-hurricane-katrina-seen-from-the-air\/\">https:\/\/qz.com\/1372247\/the-destruction-wrought-by-hurricane-katrina-seen-from-the-air\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15443\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15443\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/08\/katrina_001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15443\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/08\/katrina_001-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/08\/katrina_001-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/08\/katrina_001-768x507.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/08\/katrina_001-209x138.jpg 209w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/08\/katrina_001.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15443\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The flooded streets of New Orleans, Sept. 4, 2005.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirteen years ago today, Hurricane Katrina came onshore in eastern Louisiana. While the winds were down to 75-80 mph, the storm surge was massive, in some places higher than 28 feet, and wiped out blocks along the coastline stretching from the Florida Panhandle well across most of Louisiana. Two days later, New Orleans started to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":15443,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-interesting-weather-images","category-tropical-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15444,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15442\/revisions\/15444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}