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Today in History: August 29, Hurricane Katrina hits Louisiana
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mon,08/21/23-12:47AM , 28 Reads
Today in History

Today is Tuesday, Aug. 29, the 241st day of 2023. There are 124 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History:

On Aug. 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast near Buras, Louisiana, bringing floods that devastated New Orleans. More than 1,800 people in the region died.
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- At a news conference, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass says the Emergency Operations Center has been activated, and they are prepared for Tropical Storm Hilary. COURTESY: KABC TV((mandatory on-air credit))
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Hilary left California desert roads covered in water and mud. Now it’s threatening Oregon and Idaho
By MARK J. TERRILL, JOHN ANTCZAK AND JULIE WATSON - Associated Press
Mon,08/21/23-12:32AM , 357 Reads
CATHEDRAL CITY, Calif. (AP) — Tropical Storm Hilary flooded roads, toppled trees and forced a rescue by bulldozer of more than a dozen older residents trapped by mud in a care home Monday as it marched northward, prompting flood watches and warnings in half a dozen states.
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- In an AP interview, Julie Patterson who is a part-time Newport Beach resident and also lives part time in Maui where she owns a coffee shop, says she's preparing for Hurricane Hilary and picking up sandbags.
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Tropical Storm Hilary swirls northward packing deadly rainfall along Mexico's Baja coast
By JORDI LEBRIJA - Associated Press
Sat,08/19/23-3:07AM , 704 Reads
ENSENADA, Mexico (AP) — Tropical Storm Hilary swirled northward Sunday just off the coast of Mexico's Baja California peninsula, no longer a hurricane but still carrying so much rain that forecasters said “catastrophic and life-threatening”
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- In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, teachers clean classrooms at a school in the aftermath of flood waters from an overflowing river in Qizhongkou Town of Laishui County in north China's Hebei Province on Aug. 11, 2023. A vast swath of northeastern China is threatened by flooding as at least 90 rivers have risen above warning levels and 24 have already overflowed their banks. State media say crews are standing by to defend homes and farmland across the Songliao Basin north of Beijing which includes parts of four provinces and several major cities with a total population of almost 100 million. (Wang Kun/Xinhua via AP)
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China's Xi calls for measures to mitigate disastrous flooding amid economic slowdown
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Thu,08/17/23-11:27PM , 644 Reads
BEIJING (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping has called for measures to mitigate the effects of this year’s disastrous flooding which has left scores dead and inflicted massive damage on crops, homes and infrastructure, including in and aroun
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