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Katrina affected more than 600 miles of the Gulf coastline, with significant devastating damage in Louisiana because of the flooding followed the hurricane. New Orleans’ geographic location made the city vulnerable facing the tremendous storm surge, and its built system that supposed to prevent the city from flooding failed as the levees breached and caused even more rapid flooding. With a large amount of people left behind to face flooding on their own because of New Orleans’ persisting social discrimination of poverty, gender disparity, and racial inequity, Hurricane Katrina eventually became such a tragic event with many fatalities that is virtually without parallel in recent U.S.