http://miva.sctimes.com/miva/cgi-bin/miva?Web/page.mv+1+local+590789NEW ORLEANS — Announcing itself Monday with shrieking, 145 mph winds, Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast outside New Orleans.
The storm submerged entire neighborhoods up to their roofs, swamping Mississippi's beachfront casinos and killing at least 58 people.
Jim Pollard, spokesman for the Harrison County emergency operations center, said 50 people were killed by Katrina in his county, with the bulk of the deaths at an apartment complex in Biloxi.
Estimates of the damage approached $9 billion, with some estimates much higher.
More than 1 million people in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida remained without electricity as federal officials rushed to bring supplies ranging from ice to clean water and food to the devastated regions.
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