The True Causes: The Cause Of Hurricane Katrina

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Hurricane Katrina was both completely expected, and wholly unprepared for. The National Hurricane Center 's mathematical models predicted that the storm wouldn 't hit New Orleans at all. At the time Hurricane Katrina was building, there was a front moving across the United States, and was expected to hit Hurricane Katrina, and the storm would rebound it across the Florida peninsula, right around Orlando and Lake Buena Vista. All of the models available for modeling the storm predicted this rebound. However, the front stalled over (FILL IN) and Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans directly. The levees above the city were only rated to survive Category 3 levels of wind. However, Hurricane Katrina was a Category 5, with winds up to 175 miles per hour. This caused the levees to break, and create a catastrophic situation in New Orleans. There were failures in all levels of government, which only exacerbated the …show more content…
Critics state that there wasn 't enough done to prepare for the disaster, as well as not enough done after the disaster. Again, Blanco, like Nagin, attempted to place blame onto FEMA, thinking that by submitting a request for aid to President Bush would be enough, and that her job was done. Blanco appears to be looking out for her own self interest, rather than the interests of the people she governed. Michael D. Brown, the director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), during Hurricane Katrina, was wholly unprepared for the disaster. After being appointed by President Bush, Brown had numerous failures during and after Hurricane Katrina. Brown had no background in emergency response, and FEMA had been merged into the newly created Department of Homeland Security, and had it 's funding cut in the merge. At the time of Hurricane Katrina, FEMA wasn 't properly equipped to deal with a national disaster, despite proving it 's worth during the 1989 San Francisco

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