Betsy's most severe impacts were felt in Louisiana, where it made landfall as a powerful Category 4 hurricane. The cyclone propelled damaging storm surge into Lake Pontchartrain, breaching …

The hurricane brought a 3 meter (10 foot) storm surge to New Orleans, producing the city’s worst flooding in decades. The surge was driven into Lake Pontchartrain, just north of New Orleans, …

Jan 31, 2024 · Hurricane Betsy hit Louisiana on September 9, 1965. It was the first Atlantic storm to produce over $1 billion in damages, and caused between 70 and 80 deaths. The U.S. Army …

Early on Sept. 10, 1965, Hurricane Betsy came ashore in Louisiana, bringing devastating flooding to New Orleans. Betsy became one of the most expensive storms up to that date, and it’s …

Hurricane Betsy made landfall near Grand Isle around 10 PM CST September 9 th as a category four hurricane with maximum sustained winds just over 130 mph (115 knots) and a minimum …

Nov 1, 2022 · New Orleans was swamped with a ten-foot storm surge that endured for days. Levees for the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet in the Lower Ninth Ward and on both sides of the …

Sep 9, 2023 · NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Saturday marks the 58th anniversary of one of the most destructive hurricanes in American history, Hurricane Betsy. On September 9, 1965, the …

May 31, 2017 · THEN: On the morning of Sept. 9, 1965, New Orleans was holding its collective breath. The monster Hurricane Betsy, which had just hammered the Bahamas and south …

Oct 11, 2018 · On 10-September-1965, Hurricane Betsy hit Grand Isle, Louisiana. The storm formed as a tropical depression on 27-August-1965, in the Caribbean, near French Guinea. …

On September 9, 1965, Hurricane Betsy struck New Orleans and the Louisiana area, causing major flooding, loss of life, and property damage. The storm became the first billion-dollar …