Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Harvey There are two hurricanes that are going to be compared and contrasted and they are Katrina and Harvey. Katrina and Harvey are two of the biggest hurricane I’ve ever heard of. I was five when Katrina had happened, but enough about my life let’s compare these two hurricanes and know what they did. Hurricane Katrina was the third strongest hurricane recorded to make the landfall New Orleans. Hurricane Harvey happened recently, but Harvey was a category four storm that hit Houston Texas on August 25, 2017.
The morning of august 29, 2005, Katrina had struck the Gulf Coast of the United States. Katrina came in as a category 5 storm. When the storm made landfall, it was a category 3 on a hurricane scale. The wind of Katrina was 100-140mph and had stretched 400 miles. The storm did a load of damage, the levee had breached so that had led to flooding. People estimated that the …show more content…
The storm had caused a lot of damage. Harvey had affected 13 million people from Texas through Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee and Kentucky. September 6, 2017, 60 people have died from the storm. The Hurricane had landfall three separate times in six days. Harvey was the third- costliest Atlantic hurricane and it lasted 8 days. When the storm was over there 71 deaths confirmed.
The police department in New Orleans had lost command and also control. Lots of the officers was on their own and some even quit, because they could not handle the storm. The police in Houston, while in downtown was flooded by Harvey, the police never lost communication or command of the city. In NOLA patients had to evacuated from two dozen hospital that had lost electricity, water, and sewer service. A couple of hospitals were evacuated in Southwest Texas during Harvey, but nothing on a scale of Katrina. NOLA emergency operations centers took on water and went down, but the EOC in Houston never went
The morning of august 29, 2005, Katrina had struck the Gulf Coast of the United States. Katrina came in as a category 5 storm. When the storm made landfall, it was a category 3 on a hurricane scale. The wind of Katrina was 100-140mph and had stretched 400 miles. The storm did a load of damage, the levee had breached so that had led to flooding. People estimated that the …show more content…
The storm had caused a lot of damage. Harvey had affected 13 million people from Texas through Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee and Kentucky. September 6, 2017, 60 people have died from the storm. The Hurricane had landfall three separate times in six days. Harvey was the third- costliest Atlantic hurricane and it lasted 8 days. When the storm was over there 71 deaths confirmed.
The police department in New Orleans had lost command and also control. Lots of the officers was on their own and some even quit, because they could not handle the storm. The police in Houston, while in downtown was flooded by Harvey, the police never lost communication or command of the city. In NOLA patients had to evacuated from two dozen hospital that had lost electricity, water, and sewer service. A couple of hospitals were evacuated in Southwest Texas during Harvey, but nothing on a scale of Katrina. NOLA emergency operations centers took on water and went down, but the EOC in Houston never went