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
1915 New Orleans hurricane the hurricane would eventually make landfall—were first issued by the Weather Bureau on the morning of September 28 and disseminated via telegraph and mail. That afternoon, a hurricane warning was issued for coastal regions of the Gulf of Mexico from Pensacola, Florida to New Orleans, Louisiana. Extensive efforts to communicate the imminent threat the hurricane posed began in earnest following the issuance of warnings for the area, with public interests being advised that the approaching storm could be stronger than the 1909 Grand Isle hurricane, which served as New Orleans' strongest documented tropical cyclone at the time. Warnings continued into