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Hurricane Rita caused extensive damage to many areas of the US Gulf Coast that were still recovering from the destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina just a month earlier. Parts of Florida saw minor flooding and power outages, while the Louisiana/Texas border region received heavy flooding.

Hurricane Ike was one of the most destructive natural disasters in US history. Ike was responsible for more than one hundred deaths across the Caribbean and the United States. Its landfall on the US Gulf Coast created one of the costliest disasters the United States had ever experienced.

Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf coast just east of New Orleans, Louisiana, causing levee breaches within the city and surrounding communities. Massive flooding destroyed much of city’s residential and commercial areas; destruction along the Mississippi and Alabama coastline was also catastrophic. More than eighteen hundred lives were lost. Official damage estimates exceeded $108 billion (in 2005 US dollars), while total economic cost estimates reached as high as $250 billion, making the event the costliest natural disaster in the history of the United States.