The National Weather Service’s New Orleans/Baton Rouge office issued a vividly worded bulletin on August 28 predicting that the area would be “uninhabitable for weeks” after “devastating damage” caused by Katrina, which at that time rivaled the intensity of Hurricane Camille.
[Rutherford B.] Hayes died of complications of a heart attack at his home on January 17, 1893, at the age of 70.