2005 World Events · Counterterror expansion and networked conflict
Hurricane Katrina strikes U.S. Gulf Coast
Katrina flooded New Orleans after levee failures and exposed severe emergency-management and inequality problems.
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What this is
A specific-event record selected from the protected World Events source ledger for cross-year research. It is not an exhaustive account of 2005.
Why it matters
It changed disaster planning and trust in state capacity.
What is established here
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What remains uncertain
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Record narrative
Source-bounded summary
Katrina flooded New Orleans after levee failures and exposed severe emergency-management and inequality problems.
It changed disaster planning and trust in state capacity.
Structured fields
Record at a glance
- Stable record ID
- 2005-006
- Date or period
- 2005-08-29
- Type
- Natural disaster / governance failure
- Focus
- Disaster / resilience
- Impact scope
- National
- Priority
- 4 of 5
- Location label
- New Orleans, United States
- Coordinate precision
- City-level coordinate
- Actors named by the source record
- U.S. federal, state, and local authorities; residents
- Verification state
- source-start-point; sensitive details require independent verification
Geographic context
A coordinate locator, not a surveyed event footprint
The submitted record supplies 29.9511, -90.0715 with the precision label “City-level coordinate.” Multi-location events, disputed borders, campaigns, and broad regions cannot be reduced to one point.
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This remains a starting-point record
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2IA — International Intelligence Archive. “Hurricane Katrina strikes U.S. Gulf Coast.” World Events record 2005-006. Reviewed July 27, 2026. https://2ix.org/world-events/2005/2005-006/