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=__Hurricane Katrina__= =Hurricane Katrina hit several states about eight years ago and injured a lot of peoples lives. The wind was about 170+ mph and on the eastern side of the hurricane there where 30 ft. waves. Hurricane Katrina was the most deadliest hurricane to ever hit the united states and 1,836 people died in the hurricane and flooding that followed in late August 2005. It ranks sixth overall in strength of recorder Atlantic hurricanes. It was also a very large storm at its peak. The winds stretched 25 to 20 miles and its extremely wide swath of hurricane force winds extended at least 75 miles to the east from the center. Katrina initially formed over the Bahamas on August 23, 2005, as a tropical depression. A storm cloud was forming and it wrapped around the north side of the storm's circulation center in the early morning hours of August 24. This storm was the Tropical Storm Katrina and the winds where up to 40 mph and 60 kph, and it was the Atlantic Ocean Storm.=