Historical Documents and Resources
341
The RRF Response to Hurricane Katrina
In late August 2005, Hurricane Katrina battered the U.S. Gulf coast, resulting in one of the deadliest natural disasters in the nation’s history. The hurricane formed in the Bahamas on August 23 and made landfall in Florida before entering the Gulf of Mexico, where it eventually strengthened...
The Maritime Administration’s Haiti Earthquake Response
Destroyed gantry crane at Port International de Port-au-Prince, Haiti, January 2010. Photograph by John Spears, Maritime Administration.In the late afternoon of January 12, 2010, a catastrophic 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck the small island nation...