NOVA
Season 33 Episode 7 - Storm That Drowned a City
In less than 12 hours on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated the Louisiana coast, leading to more than a thousand deaths and transforming a city of over one million into an uninhabitable swamp. NOVA investigates the science of Hurricane Katrina, combining a penetrating analysis of what went wrong with a dramatic, minute-by-minute unfolding of events told through eyewitness testimony. What made this storm so deadly? Will powerful hurricanes like Katrina strike more often? How accurately did scientists predict its impact, and why did the levees protecting New Orleans fail?
Episodes in Season 33
Mystery of the Megaflood
55 min
Sinking the Supership
55 min
Einstein's Big Idea
55 min
Volcano Under the City
55 min
Hitler's Sunken Secret
55 min
Newton's Dark Secrets
55 min
Storm That Drowned a City
55 min
The Mummy Who Would Be King
55 min
Deadly Ascent
55 min
The Perfect Corpse
55 min
Jewel of the Earth
55 min
The Ghost Particle
55 min
Arctic Passage
55 min
The Great Robot Race: Nova
55 min
Voyage to the Mystery Moon
55 min
Dimming the Sun
55 min
Wings of Madness
55 min
Family That Walks on All Fours
55 min
ScienceNOW: Extinction
57 min
Underwater Dream Machine
57 min
