How To Prevent Hurricane Katrina

Introduction On the early morning of August 29, 2005 Hurricane Katrina made landfall as a category 3 storm with winds over a hundred twenty-mile winds between Grand Isle, Louisiana and the mouth of the Mississippi River. Katrina went down in United States history as the single most catastrophic natural disaster. The damage caused by Katrina were estimated at $108 billion. The most costly hurricane in U.S. history. Fatalities in Louisiana alone were 1,577 people. There were fatalities in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and Mississippi had 1,833 fatalities resulting from hurricane Katrina (CNN, 2015). The flooding caused by Katrina when the loves broke their banks, left millions of people homeless along the Gulf Coast and New Orleans. According …show more content…
These people sought refuge in the New Orleans Convention Center and the Superdome. According to the NOAA, this was largest dislocation of a city since the Great Depression. Research shows that over one million people where displaced in the Golf Cost region. The federal, state, and local officials blamed each other for the disaster. The blame was put on aging and unkempt levee systems, and slow responses from the local and state following the disaster for the high death toll and damages. Many people in these areas did not listen to initial evacuation warnings, this put terrible struggles on the rescue teams (Zimmerman, …show more content…
Blanco did not run for re-election in 2007. Mayor Nagin left office in 2010. In 2014, he was convicted of bribery, fraud and money laundering that was committed while in office before and after Katrina and he is serving a 10 year sentence for his crimes. Therefore, an investigation was done by a bipartisan committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, of the perpetration, response and the aftermath of the hurricane that every level of the government failed (Zimmerman, 2015). Hurricane Katrina has been by far the costliest disaster in the history of the Global Insurance Industry. In the private insurance sector, companies have paid out an estimated $41.1 billion on 1.7 million claims for damages to vehicles, homes, and business in six different states. In Louisiana alone 63 percent and 33 percent in Mississippi. Two years after the storm insurance companies have settled 99 percent of the 1.2 million personal property claims. The National Flood Insurance Program paid out $16.3 billion in claims $13 billion of that went to claims in Louisiana (CNN,