On Wednesday, August 24, 2005 there was a storm, a tropical depression called number 12 forming over the Bahamas. On Thursday number 12 was named Katrina and she hit Florida killing 11 people with 80 mile per hour winds, a category 1 hurricane. On Friday Katrina was category 2 and was in the gulf of Mexico. Saturday Katrina was a category 3 and people were ordered to leave New Orleans immediately and about 18,000 cars per hour of people did that. But not everyone left. Some couldn't, some people just didn't. Some went to shelters. Sunday Katrina reached a category 4 then a 5 hurricane with winds more than 175 miles per hour. Monday Katrina hit Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama.
For New Orleans the storm was bad but the horrible devotion came when the levees broke. And the city flooded. And people couldn't get out of their homes so they went to their rooftops. By Wednesday police had to stop rescuing people because there was so much violence and looting. I don't understand how people are sometimes so terrible to each other. It took until Friday for the National Guard to come and bring food and water to people, to really rescue people and get order back. This was a terrible event that happened.
I like that you the background information you gave about hurricane Katrina, and informed the readers about some of the terrible and tragic things that this storm created. This really was a terrible event that happened and affected so many peoples lives.
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