Making landfall on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans with enormous force. The city had faced deadly storms previously, including Hurricane Betsy in 1965, which caused extensive ...
Only Hurricane Katrina topped those numbers ... evacuation in Florida since Irma but made landfall south of Tampa as a Category 3 storm. It spared the Tampa Bay area a catastrophic storm surge.
behind only Hurricane Katrina. Less than two weeks later, Hurricane Milton plowed into Florida's Gulf Coast just south of Tampa as a Category 3 storm. The track of the hurricane spared North ...