What was worse katrina or sandy

A television station was forced to evacuate its offices and go off the air because of rising floodwater. Houston reported a backlog of 2, emergency calls. There was so much flooding that authorities struggled to say where it was worst. Katrina basically wiped out an entire NFL market, scattering New Orleans residents across much of the nation.

It was the costliest natural disaster and one of the five deadliest hurricanes in U. S history. More than 1, people died. It was the second-costliest hurricane in U. Allison spent most of its two-week life over land, drifting northward through the state, before turning back south and re-entering the Gulf of Mexico. The storm dropped more than 40 inches in Texas — a record that Harvey is expected to eclipse by 10 inches.

And like Harvey, the worst flooding was in Houston. About 30, people were driven from their homes, about 2, of which were ruined. Downtown Houston was inundated. Sandy, a post-tropical cyclone by the time it struck New Jersey, caused extreme flooding and damage here and elsewhere. While it was a Category 2 hurricane off the coast of the Northeastern United States, the storm became the largest Atlantic hurricane on record as measured by diameter, with tropical-storm-force winds spanning 1, miles 1, km.

When the storm made landfall, it had a Category 3 rating on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale—it brought sustained winds of — miles per hour—and stretched some miles across. Early the next day, the depression made landfall at Key Biscayne, and subsequently strengthened into Tropical Storm Sally that afternoon…. Hurricane Sally. As the East Coast examines the destruction, comparisons have been made to other catastrophic storms. The most noticeable difference is the extent of the strong wind fields.

For Katrina, winds over 65 kilometers per hour stretched about kilometers miles from edge to edge. For Sandy, winds of that intensity stretched 1, kilometers miles. Another difference is the location of the strongest winds. For tropical cyclones in the northern hemisphere, the strongest winds are usually just east of the eye amidst a ring of violent thunderstorms called the eyewall.

View this area in EO Explorer. The scenes of devastation and wreckage that these two hurricanes left behind were tragically similar, but the meteorology was very different. Image of the Day Atmosphere Severe Storms.

East Coast. Atmosphere Water Severe Storms. A radar on the Indian satellite Oceansat-2 measured the winds of the super typhoon on November 7,