louisiana and mississippi a strong category four hurricane. in new orleans catastrophic levee system failures led to tragedy. more than 1800 people died and more than $100 billion worth of damage. we dirty. we wading in the water, the dirty filthy water. reporter: katrina hit in the busiest year. wilma hit two months later, the most intense in the atlantic basin. the wind the clocked at 19 185 miles per hour. $21 billion worth of damage. hurricane hugo was also a category five hurricane while spinning in the atlanta tick in 19 atlantic in 1989 and had 135 mile per hour winds. at least 100 people died. billions of dollars in damage. the deadliest hurricane in u.s. history was in 1900 in
strong category four hurricane. in new orleans catastrophic levee system failures led to tragedy. more than 1800 people died and more than $100 billion worth of damage. we dirty. we wading in the water, the dirty filthy water. reporter: katrina hit in the busiest year. wilma hit two months later, the most intense in the atlantic basin. the wind the clocked at 19 185 miles per hour. $21 billion worth of damage. hurricane hugo was also a category five hurricane while spinning in the atlanta tick in 19 atlantic in 1989 and had 135 mile per hour winds. at least 100 people died. billions of dollars in damage.
football team can make a difference. tell me why? i ve seen it happen before. the most recent one that stands out was new orleans and what they did when they won a super bowl. katrina hit that city so hard and football became a way for people to escape reality. after hurricane katrina, we were able to lift the city up, so to speak, with the way we played football and winning the games and wins the super bowl made a big difference but also just being involved in the community. on many occasions i met with people and they told me they don t have much money. but the money they do have is spent more on their family. as long as i can give people something to smile about on game day, especially here in michigan, it means it s all worth it. hopefully those detroit lions with get to the playoffs. let s get to sports headlines here. let s leave detroit for a second. johnny manziel will sit out the first half of texas a&m a season opener versus rice this
you are optimistic that a football team can make a difference. tell me why. because i ve seen it happen before. the most recent one ta stathat stands out in my mind was new orleans and what they did when they won a super bowl. katrina hit that city so hard and football became a way for people to escape reality. after hurricane katrina we were able to kind of lift the city up, so to speak, you know, in the way we play football and winning the games and winning the super bowl obviously made a big difference, but also just being involved in the community. on many occasions i ve met with people and they told me that, you know, they don t have muchp money, but the money they have is spent, one, on their family and two on the lions. as long as i can give people something to smile about on game day, especially here in michigan, that means it s all worth it. really good.
in rebuilding. will this be the water shed moment? not just for oklahoma, but maybe other cities. texas and others, in the so-called tornado alleys as we are seeing the incredible tornadoes and forces of nature. well, it would be nice if that s the case. you mentioned florida, the state that i live in in florida we learned a lot from hurricane andrew and put great codes and enforced those codes. after katrina hit the gulf coast, louisiana put a statewide code in place. oklahoma is an interesting case. they are on an older version of the building codes in oklahoma city. newer version in the rest of the state but only four of the 77 counties have adopted the 2009 codes. it is important to know that code are a minimum building standard. very minimum legal level which you can build. so we have a lot of brittle remaining construction in oklahoma as people rebuild. it is an opportunity to do better, and we hope that they will. julie, great information. thank you for joining us. very insi