This is just an excerpt from my reasearch paper: Ranked number 11th, fifth hurricane, third major hurricane, and second category 5 hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic season, hurricane Katrina was one of the most expensive and deadliest hurricanes in the history of the United States. Ranked as the sixth strongest Atlantic Hurrincae ever recoreded and the third strongest land falling hurricane on record, Katrina gave a new and profound meaning to death and destruction.