In the early hours of August 29^th 2005 Hurricane Katrina made landfall, after passing through the Gulf of Mexico, and devastated the city of New Orleans, and 90,000 square miles of the state of Mississippi and coastal Louisiana before dissipating.

Forming in the Caribbean and declared a tropical storm on August 23^rd, it became a monstrous Hurricane, a Category 5, within three days, after first striking the tip of Florida and diverting into the Gulf of Mexico. Described by many as ‘Biblical’ and ‘Apocalyptic’ in scale and destructive force, it wrought incalculable damage upon the lives of hundreds of thousands of people living in its path, and continues to be an historic tragedy.