Imagine that you are the leader of a people who need a new place to settle. which is the most important factor in determining where you will live? warm water for bathing

tropical storm katrina, and it made landfall between miami and fort lauder-dale, florida, as a category 1 hurricane (a storm that, on the saffir-simpson scale, exhibits winds in the range of 74–95 miles per hour [119–154 km per hour]). sustained winds of 70 miles per hour (115 km per hour) lashed the florida peninsula, and rainfall totals of 5 inches (13 cm) were reported in some areas. the storm spent less than eight hours over land. it quickly intensified when it reached the warm waters of the gulf of mexico.

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