In August 2005, Hurricane Katrina, a category 5 storm, hit Louisiana leaving Xavier under six feet of water. The hurricane decimated Xavier's student enrollment, which decreased from 4,100 students to 3,000 students. The campus was flooded with water for two weeks. It took nearly five months and $80 million of federal funds and private donations to reconstruct the campus. Important buildings such as the Norman C. Francis Academic Science Complex and the University Center were partly demolished in order to repair them. Xavier University reopened in January 2006.