Maura Ploesser #14 7R Hurricane Katrina February 18, 2015 One of the deadliest hurricanes in history Billions of dollars in damage a hurricane that killed thousands. They call it Hurricane Katrina. Katrina initially formed over the Bahamas on August 23, 205 as a tropical depression .on the North side of the storm circulating in the center early in the morning of August 24 , 2005 , forty to sixty five miles wide , the storm now name a tropical storm , a tropical storm called Katrina . On August 24, 2005 this storm was the first to appear on the satellite images. Now on the Saffir Simpson Hurricane scale read the winds of hundred to hundred forty per hour and stretched four hundred miles across. Before the storm traveled any farther people
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Seven hundred thousand had requests for help most were poor, old, and ill, on the Morning of August 31, 2005 more than 25,000 people with nowhere to go took shelter in the Superdome Officials accepted fifteen thousand more refuges and on Monday the Superdome locked the doors. thirty four thousand people alone got help from the U.S. coast guards , using commander boats offering food , shelter and did what they could do to help neighbors and citizens in need .officials also tried to use school buses to evacuate, but there was not enough bus drivers . But many city officials didn’t know what to do. People were so desperate that they waited on the Fillmore Bridge. One thousand tried to cross the bridge, but the town of Gretna had police officers with their guns make a barrier. A police chief said too many citizens “ this town has no food, no water no shelter to offer .” others went to the medical center, but that wasn’t the best it was 100 F , three feet below sea level , 10 feet of water on its ground floor , no electricity , elevators ,and staff carried patience and people up the flights of stairs . This tropical storm on August 25, 2005 finally hit land it hit Florida, in a weak zone with eighty mile per hour winds and killing 2 …show more content…
Half of the hospitals, bus routes remained closed. New Orleans Superdome was closed for thirteen months and had two hundred million dollars in damage. The coast and death roll was high in fact, there were about two thousand deaths in all and in New Orleans one thousand eight hundred and thirty six deaths were the toll. New Orleans experience the highest death toll in the U.S., Katrina affected over ninety thousand people in the U.S. . . . In Louisiana there were one thousand four hundred and sixty four deaths , in Mississippi two hundred and eighty three deaths , fourteen deaths in Florida and two deaths in Georgia . After getting the death toll of over all there were two hundred unclaimed bodies and in Louisiana in August 8, 2006 there were still one hundred thirty five bodies missing. Louisiana had studied the deaths and noticed a seventy one percent of the victims were older than sixty and forty seven percent over the age seventy five, sixty eight of them were found in some nursing homes who were abandoned by family and caretakers. Katrina caused forty point six billion of insured losses in the U.S.
Seven hundred thousand had requests for help most were poor, old, and ill, on the Morning of August 31, 2005 more than 25,000 people with nowhere to go took shelter in the Superdome Officials accepted fifteen thousand more refuges and on Monday the Superdome locked the doors. thirty four thousand people alone got help from the U.S. coast guards , using commander boats offering food , shelter and did what they could do to help neighbors and citizens in need .officials also tried to use school buses to evacuate, but there was not enough bus drivers . But many city officials didn’t know what to do. People were so desperate that they waited on the Fillmore Bridge. One thousand tried to cross the bridge, but the town of Gretna had police officers with their guns make a barrier. A police chief said too many citizens “ this town has no food, no water no shelter to offer .” others went to the medical center, but that wasn’t the best it was 100 F , three feet below sea level , 10 feet of water on its ground floor , no electricity , elevators ,and staff carried patience and people up the flights of stairs . This tropical storm on August 25, 2005 finally hit land it hit Florida, in a weak zone with eighty mile per hour winds and killing 2 …show more content…
Half of the hospitals, bus routes remained closed. New Orleans Superdome was closed for thirteen months and had two hundred million dollars in damage. The coast and death roll was high in fact, there were about two thousand deaths in all and in New Orleans one thousand eight hundred and thirty six deaths were the toll. New Orleans experience the highest death toll in the U.S., Katrina affected over ninety thousand people in the U.S. . . . In Louisiana there were one thousand four hundred and sixty four deaths , in Mississippi two hundred and eighty three deaths , fourteen deaths in Florida and two deaths in Georgia . After getting the death toll of over all there were two hundred unclaimed bodies and in Louisiana in August 8, 2006 there were still one hundred thirty five bodies missing. Louisiana had studied the deaths and noticed a seventy one percent of the victims were older than sixty and forty seven percent over the age seventy five, sixty eight of them were found in some nursing homes who were abandoned by family and caretakers. Katrina caused forty point six billion of insured losses in the U.S.