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=Hurricane Katrina= Hurricane Katrina was one of the most deadlies and costliest of hurricanes in US. history. It was the sixth strongest hurricanes recorded in the Alantic hurricanes. It was the deadlist hurricane, since 1928's Okeechobee hurricane, with 1,836 lives lost in the actual hurricane. Most of the lives lost were in New Orleans, Louisiana, where the levee system failed to protect the city but, they only found out after many hours after the storm had moved inland. The levees failed because the hurricane's right-front quadrant was forecast to be 28 feet, and went straight over the top of them. After this was figured out the mayor, Ray Nagin, order the first mandatory evacuation of New Orleans but, they did have provisions for those who couldn't leave the city. This including the Louisiana Superdome, which held 26,000 people with food and water for several days. Once Hurricane Katrina was in New Orleans it was catorgrized as a level 5 hurricane.