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Last Katrina FEMA trailer leaves New Orleans
The last of the once-ubiquitous FEMA trailers has been removed from New Orleans more than six years after floodwalls and levees broke during Hurricane Katrina and caused the city to fill with floodwaters.
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Blog: Eye on the Storm
- Hurricane Center tweaks 2011 box score
- Hurricane Center Director Bill Read to Retire
- Does global climate change affect hurricanes?
- Hurricane forecasters give odds for 2012 season
- Video animation: The 2011 Atlantic Hurricane Season in 4.5 minutes
- Tropical Storm Rina forms in northwestern Caribbean Sea
- Can’t reach loved ones in a hurricane? Here are some tips.
- 1928 storm struck 83 years ago today
- Depression No. 14 now Tropical Storm Maria
- Palm Beach County emergency staff help New York deal with Irene
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Learn the basics of hurricanes
The ingredients for a hurricane include a pre-existing weather disturbance, warm tropical oceans, moisture, and relatively light winds aloft. If the right conditions persist long enough, they can combine to produce the violent winds, incredible waves, torrential rains, and floods we associate with this phenomenon.
