the city of NewOrleans and its surrounding area. Katrina was the twelfth tropical cyclone, the fifth hurricane, and the third major hurricane of the 2005
response to HurricaneKatrina and its aftermath. Specifically, there was a delayed response to the flooding of NewOrleans, Louisiana. (See Hurricane preparedness
timeline of the events of HurricaneKatrina on August 23–30, 2005 and its aftermath. What would eventually become Katrina started as Tropical Depression