What else did Katrina Bring? Compared to Ivan one year ago

From Wikipedia:
Hurricane Ivan is also suspected of bringing spores of soybean rust from Venezuela into the United States, the first ever occurrences of soybean rust found in North America. Since the Florida soybean crop had already been mostly harvested, economic damage was limited. Some of the most severe outbreaks in South America have been known to reduce soybean crop yields by half or more. <13>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Ivan

Also quite an interesting view when comparing Ivan to Katrina and looking at what obvious lessons of what to expect considering it was a very surprisingly similar situation: same hurricane time, same hurricane channel ... seeing NO drowned like a dawg: priceless

A real must read: What if Hurricane Ivan Had Not Missed New Orleans?




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FACTOIDS to compare:
- September hurricane
- sixth most intense Atlantic hurricane on record.
- It caused an estimated $13 billion dollars worth of damage in the United States,
- fourth costliest hurricane to ever strike the U.S.
- broke several hydrological records;
- possibly causing the largest ocean wave ever recorded, a 91-foot (27 meter) wave that may have been as high as 131 feet (40 m),
- fastest seafloor current, at 2.25 meters per second (5 miles per hour).<1>
- The National Weather Service noted such rapid strengthening was unprecedented at such low latitudes in the Atlantic basin.
- The name Ivan was retired afterwards

- and most amazingly, Ivan was a DOUBLE -- it came back around for seconds!
- Made landfall on September 16, 2004 and again September 23, 2004




Read about Preparations http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Ivan#Preparations
and Aftermath and Recovery in the States: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Ivan#United_States_2





Contents
1 Storm history
1.1 Caribbean
1.2 United States
1.3 Ivan's "return"
2 Preparations
3 Aftermath and recovery
3.1 Grenada
3.2 Jamaica
3.3 Cayman Islands
3.4 Rest of the Caribbean
3.5 United States
4 Reference
5 Footnotes
6 External links

peach seeds would be something else though ... thems would be strong winds!!!