Article: Hurricane Katrina plows into Louisiana but spares New Orleans its full fury

ADAM NOSSITER, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
08-29-2005
Dateline: NEW ORLEANS
Hurricane Katrina plowed into this below-sea-level city Monday with shrieking, 145-mph (233-kph) winds and blinding rain that flooded homes to the rooflines and peeled away part of the Superdome, where thousands of people had taken shelter.

Katrina weakened overnight to a Category 4 storm and made a slight turn to the right before hitting land at 6:10 a.m. CDT (1110 GMT) near the bayou town of Buras. It passed just to the east of New Orleans as it moved inland, sparing this vulnerable city its full fury.

But National Hurricane Center Director Max Mayfield warned that New Orleans would be pounded throughout ...

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