Katrina

American  

[kuh-tree-nuh] / kəˈtri nə /

Or Katryna

noun

1. a female given name, form of Katherine.

---

Example Sentences

But perhaps its most heartbreaking application was when Springsteen and the Seeger Sessions Band played at the first New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival since Hurricane Katrina decimated the city and the region.

From Salon

“That’s right, Cindy. Just like we saw in Hurricane Katrina. If your house or building is standing after the wind, flooding is the next problem. Water damage can be worse than wind damage … much worse … and with all the oil floating around the gulf from the BP spill, there could be a real mess here on shore.”

From Literature

We were on Amtrak’s Mardi Gras Service, which launched last August after the route, which heads east from New Orleans, was shut down more than 20 years ago due to damage sustained from Hurricane Katrina.

From The Wall Street Journal

She has also covered natural and manmade disasters, from Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf Coast and the mass slayings at Emanuel Church in Charleston to the deadly condominium collapse in Surfside, Fla. She has written features about Nascar, roller coasters, beauty pageants and Waffle House.

From The Wall Street Journal

The vision for an interdisciplinary nationwide network grew out of the failures of communications during 9/11 and the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission, as well as the massive communications challenges that followed natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

From The Wall Street Journal