The Cowsills the band's breakup. William "Bud" Joseph Cowsill, Sr. "(December 2, 1925 – September 29, 1992) Aged 66 years" The Cowsill family father, "Bud" Cowsill, died of leukemia while living in Mexico. Barry Steven Cowsill "(September 14, 1954 – August 29, 2005) Aged 50 years" Both Barry Cowsill and his sister Susan were living in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina struck on August 29, 2005. Susan and her husband left New Orleans, but most of her belongings at her New Orleans home were destroyed. A badly decomposed body recovered from the Chartres Street Wharf in New Orleans on December 28 was
Hurricane Cindy (2005) km/h), many trees were damaged or uprooted and scattered street flooding was reported. As thousands lost electrical power, the city experienced its worst blackout since Hurricane Betsy 40 years earlier. Although still listed as a "Tropical Storm" by the weather service at the time, many laypeople in New Orleans were under the impression that Cindy was a hurricane, and referred to it as "Hurricane Cindy" before it was officially upgraded. Many people in the New Orleans metropolitan area expected minimal effects from the storm, but were cleaning up debris and were without power for days after Cindy's passage. In Louisiana,