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Book tv. Each week, American History tvs reel america brings you archival films that help provide context to todays Public Affairs issues. 50 years ago on september 9th, 1965, hurricane betsy made landfall at grand isle, louisiana, near new orleans. It was a category 4 storm with winds up to 155 Miles Per Hour. A hurricane called betsy is a 30minute Defense Department film documenting billiondollar betsy, the first storm in u. S. History to cause over 1 billion in damage. A storm surge of over ten feet led to breached levees, the flooding of 164,000 homes, and 76 deaths. Similar to Hurricane Katrina in 2005, many residents had to wait for rescue on rooftops and relief shelters were overwhelmed. Four, t ....

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