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Hurricane Betsy was a powerful hurricane of the 1965 Atlantic hurricane season which caused enormous damage in the Bahamas, Florida, and Louisiana. Betsy made its most intense landfall near the mouth of the Mississippi River, causing significant flooding of the waters of Lake Pontchartrain into New Orleans; at the time it was the costliest hurricane in the history of the United States, earning the nickname "Billion-Dollar Betsy". The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale is a scale classifying most Western Hemisphere tropical cyclones that exceed the levels of tropical depression and tropical storm and thereby become hurricanes. ...
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Official language(s) English Capital Tallahassee Largest city Jacksonville Area - Total - Width - Length - % water - Latitude - Longitude Ranked 22nd 170 451 km² 260 km 800 km 17. ...
Palm trees in Islamorada The Florida Keys are an archipelago or cluster of about 1700 islands in the extreme southeast of the United States. ...
Official language(s) English and French Capital Baton Rouge Largest city New Orleans at last census; probably Baton Rouge since Hurricane Katrina Area - Total - Width - Length - % water - Latitude - Longitude Ranked 31st 134,382 km² 210 km 610 km 16 29°N to 33°N 89°W to 94°W Population...
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The 1965 Atlantic hurricane season was an ongoing event in the annual cycle of tropical cyclone formation. ...
Official language(s) English Capital Tallahassee Largest city Jacksonville Area - Total - Width - Length - % water - Latitude - Longitude Ranked 22nd 170 451 km² 260 km 800 km 17. ...
Official language(s) English and French Capital Baton Rouge Largest city New Orleans at last census; probably Baton Rouge since Hurricane Katrina Area - Total - Width - Length - % water - Latitude - Longitude Ranked 31st 134,382 km² 210 km 610 km 16 29°N to 33°N 89°W to 94°W Population...
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Storm history
Betsy formed east of the Windward Islands, and moved north through the island chain as a tropical storm. When it was about 350 miles (560 km) east of Daytona Beach, Florida, and seemed to be on its way to hit the Carolinas, it turned back toward the southwest, passing over the Bahamas where winds on Great Abaco Island reached 147 mph (237 km/h). Betsy travelled just north of Nassau, the biggest city in the Bahamas, where it stalled for about three hours, allowing its winds to pound the city. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x718, 436 KB) Summary Hurricane Betsy (1965) track. ...
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A Daytona Beach Bar Daytona Beach is a city located in Volusia County, Florida, USA. As of 2004, the population estimates recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau is 64,422. ...
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The Abaco islands lie in the northern Bahamas and comprise the main islands of Great Abaco and Little Abaco, together with the smaller Wood Cay, Green Turtle Cay, Great Guana Cay, Gorda Cay, Elbow Cay, Man-o-War Cay, Strangers Cay, Umbrella Cay, Walkers Cay and Mores Island. ...
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On September 7, Betsy continued moving toward the southwest toward extreme southern Florida. It passed over Key Largo at the eastern end of the Florida Keys, and then continued west along the Keys, as a Category 3 hurricane. Hurricane-force winds were experienced in the Miami area for roughly twelve hours. At its landfall on Key Largo, Betsy had an exceptionally large eye (40 miles (65 km) in diameter). September 7 is the 250th day of the year (251st in leap years). ...
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After crossing Florida Bay and entering the Gulf of Mexico, Betsy restrengthened, growing into a Category 4 storm with winds up to 155 mph (250 km/h). It continued northwestward, moving into Barataria Bay on the evening of September 9. It made its second U.S. landfall at Grand Isle, Louisiana, just west of the mouth of the Mississippi River, where it destroyed almost every building. At the time of landfall in Louisiana, Betsy was a strong Category 3 storm [1]. The storm travelled upriver, causing the Mississippi at New Orleans to rise by 10 feet (3 m). Florida Bay is the shallow bay located between the southern end of the Florida mainland (the Florida Everglades) and the Florida Keys. ...
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Impact Betsy was one of the most intense, deadly, and costly storms to make landfall in the United States. The storm killed seventy six people in Louisiana. Betsy caused $1.42 billion in damage, which when adjusted for inflation amounts to $8.5 billion (2000 USD). Betsy was the first hurricane to cause damages in excess of $1 billion (based on damage at the time of the storm - many storms before then have inflation-adjusted damage over $1 billion); the storm thus earned the nickname "Billion-Dollar Betsy". Official language(s) English and French Capital Baton Rouge Largest city New Orleans at last census; probably Baton Rouge since Hurricane Katrina Area - Total - Width - Length - % water - Latitude - Longitude Ranked 31st 134,382 km² 210 km 610 km 16 29°N to 33°N 89°W to 94°W Population...
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 Flooding in the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans after Betsy Hurricane Betsy slammed into New Orleans on the evening of September 9th, 1965. The eye of the storm passed to the southwest of New Orleans on a northwesterly track. The northern and western eyewalls covered Southeast Lousisana and the New Orleans area from about 8pm until 4am the next morning. Around 1am, the worst of the wind and rain was over. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (700x917, 142 KB) Summary Flooding in the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans after Hurricane Betsy, with helicoptor visible. ...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (700x917, 142 KB) Summary Flooding in the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans after Hurricane Betsy, with helicoptor visible. ...
Unfortunately, Betsy also drove a storm surge into Lake Pontchartrain, just north of New Orleans, and the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet, a deep-water shipping channel to the east and south. Levees for the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet along Florida Avenue in the lower Ninth Ward and on both sides of the Industrial Canal were overtopped and failed. The flood water reached the eaves of houses in some places and over some one story roofs in the Lower Ninth Ward. Some residents drowned in their attics trying to survice the rising waters. Map showing Lake Pontchartrain Lake Pontchartrain (local pronunciation ) is a brackish-water lake in southeastern Louisiana. ...
These levee breaches flooded parts of Gentilly, the Upper Ninth Ward, and the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans as well as Arabi and Chalmette in neighboring St. Bernard Parish. The 9th ward is a distinctive region of New Orleans, Louisiana that is located in the eastern downriver portion of the city. ...
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President Lyndon Johnson visited the city, promising New Orleans Mayor Vic Schiro Federal aid. Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908–January 22, 1973), often referred to as LBJ, was an American politician. ...
-Victor Hugo Vic Schiro (1904 - 1992) was a New Orleans, Louisiana politician who served on the New Orleans City Council and was Mayor of New Orleans 1961 - 1969. ...
It was ten days or more before the water level in New Orleans went down enough for people to return to their homes. It took even longer than that to restore their flooded houses to a livable condition. Those who did not have family or friends with dry homes had to sleep in the shelters at night and forage for supplies during the day, while waiting for the federal government to provide emergency relief in the form of trailers.
In all, 164,000 homes were flooded at the second landfall.
Aftermath The Army Corps of Engineers' Hurricane Protection Program came into existence as a result of Betsy. The Corps built new levees for New Orleans that were both taller and made of stronger material, designed specifically to resist a fast-moving Category three hurricane like Betsy. The resulting levee improvements spared the city from similar flooding in 1969 when Hurricane Camille impacted the area, but failed when Hurricane Katrina, a large and slow-moving Category 3 hurricane made a near-direct hit on New Orleans on August 29, 2005. United States Army Corps of Engineers logo The United States Army Corps of Engineers, or USACE, is made up of some 34,600 military men and women. ...
Hurricane Camille was a Category 5 hurricane that struck the United States at peak intensity near the mouth of the Mississippi River on the night of August 17 during the 1969 Atlantic hurricane season, causing catastrophic damage. ...
Hurricane Katrina was the eleventh named tropical storm, fifth hurricane, third major hurricane, and first Category 5 hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. ...
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Retirement Because of the significance of its damage, the name Betsy was retired from the recurring list of names for Atlantic hurricanes. It was replaced by Blanche in 1969. These are the names of Atlantic hurricanes that have been retired (removed from the rotation of naming lists) since human names were first used for naming of tropical cyclones in 1953. ...
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First storm formed: July 25, 1969 Last storm dissipated: Nov. ...
Trivia Unusually, Betsy's track included not one but two complete loops.
Betsy is comparable to 2005's Hurricane Katrina, which followed a similar path but caused more extensive damage and casualties in New Orleans. Numerous other highly-destructive hurricanes, including Hurricane Andrew, the 1947 Fort Lauderdale Hurricane, and the 1926 Miami Hurricane, have also followed very similar paths. 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Hurricane Katrina was the eleventh named tropical storm, fifth hurricane, third major hurricane, and first Category 5 hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. ...
Hurricane Andrew was one of the most destructive hurricanes ever to hit the United States. ...
The Fort Lauderdale Hurricane (or Pompano Beach Hurricane or Forgotten Hurricane) was an intense category 5 hurricane that affected Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi in September of 1947. ...
The 1926 Miami Hurricane (or Great Miami Hurricane or the Big Blow) was a destructive and intense hurricane that battered Miami, Florida in 1926. ...
External link - Historic Images of Florida Hurricanes (State Archives of Florida)
- President Lyndon Johnson and the Response to Hurricane Betsy @ University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs
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