Approximately 10 years after the disaster that was Katrina, people still mourn the existence of their serene lives before the storm. Katrina’s powers left millions homeless and close to a thousand dead. Though most of houses were rebuilt and business is back to normal, the cities and towns affected by this tragedy will never be the same. In late August 2005, a tropical storm, soon to be known as one of the biggest hurricanes in American history, formed over the Bahamas. This would be the 12th tropical storm of the hurricane season. On August 23, the tropical storm was picked up by the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Florida. At the time, the storm was very weak and unorganized, not considered to ever get
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Although as the week went on the storm became stronger and more organized; it rose from no name tropical storm to Hurricane Katrina. On the 25th of August, Katrina was deemed a category one …show more content…
Volunteers and troops were deployed to the site where houses, restaurants, and businesses once stood. The hurricane left millions of people homeless, more than the superdome and other shelters could hold. Not only was this a disaster physically to the many towns destroyed in the hurricane, but it took a toll on many emotionally. Many were relatives, friends, and or neighbors to the 1836 people who died, some had just lost their homes and possessions, and others were trapped waiting to be rescued. The emotional trauma of the life-shattering event is something not one of these victims will ever forget. Allison Good in her article Hurricane Katrina: Story from a Survivor wrote, “how do you react to emancipated bodies in wheelchairs, dead from dehydration, starvation, and lack of emergency medical care?” these were just a few of the things she witnessed as a victim of Katrina’s destruction. Over the next weeks the coast guard would rescue some 34,000 people in New Orleans alone, families would grieve the losses of what once was, communities would work to rebuild what was lost but no one would walk away without life altering disaster sketched in their minds
Although as the week went on the storm became stronger and more organized; it rose from no name tropical storm to Hurricane Katrina. On the 25th of August, Katrina was deemed a category one …show more content…
Volunteers and troops were deployed to the site where houses, restaurants, and businesses once stood. The hurricane left millions of people homeless, more than the superdome and other shelters could hold. Not only was this a disaster physically to the many towns destroyed in the hurricane, but it took a toll on many emotionally. Many were relatives, friends, and or neighbors to the 1836 people who died, some had just lost their homes and possessions, and others were trapped waiting to be rescued. The emotional trauma of the life-shattering event is something not one of these victims will ever forget. Allison Good in her article Hurricane Katrina: Story from a Survivor wrote, “how do you react to emancipated bodies in wheelchairs, dead from dehydration, starvation, and lack of emergency medical care?” these were just a few of the things she witnessed as a victim of Katrina’s destruction. Over the next weeks the coast guard would rescue some 34,000 people in New Orleans alone, families would grieve the losses of what once was, communities would work to rebuild what was lost but no one would walk away without life altering disaster sketched in their minds