Traci A. Curry's five-parter looks back at the lessons learned, and why we can't forget the tragic aspects that were man-made ...

The 1933 Chesapeake-Potomac Hurricane (Six 1933 on the U.S. landfall map) is very similar to Hurricane Isabel in 2003, making landfall on the Outer Banks in North Carolina first before racing inland.

From there, people can decide which way they want to go. Contraflow has been used twice in Louisiana: in 2005, for Hurricane Katrina, and in 2008, for Hurricane Gustav.