HURRICANE BETSY

HURRICANE BETSY

Betsy made landfall on Sept. 9, 1965 with maximum sustained winds of 130 mph.

She was upgraded to a category 4 hurricane.

She made landfall in the dark of the night, pushing storm surge into Lake Pontchartrain and Mississippi river, which caused major flooding in the ninth ward, Gentilly and ST. Bernard Parish.

A total of 75 people were killed and Betsy became the first ever hurricane to cause $1 billion in damages to the United States

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