Hurricane Katrina Research Paper

Eighty five hurricanes don the earth each year according to NASA. Some out at sea, some just minor storms, but it’s the devastating ones that rake the lands, destroying everything in its path are the ones you have to worry about. Hurricane Katrina took the western world by storm in August of 2005. Category five (the highest) with the highest wind speeds of 280km/h, the storm killed over eighteen hundred people. It was devastating to all areas affected by the hurricane, some more than others. In the United States, with so many areas affected there is so much relief and money to repair what the storm damaged. Places like New Orleans never recovered, and might never. The hope was sucked dry from the city, and not even the miracle of young love …show more content…
There are only a few memories Jonah had of his whole family: his mother, father, oldest Bill, and second oldest Dex, then him; Jonah. When he was little his mother died in a car accident, causing his father to grow cold hearted. Few years later, Bill graduated and joined the military, a common things boys do, only to be killed by a land mined, on his first tour of Afghanistan. Dex grows cold and distance, moving away, it was not till their father died of a heart attack, did Dex come back to do the rearrangements. Left in the world of only Jonah and Dex, Jonah was not surprise that once Jonah turned 18, releasing Dex up from his guardianship that Dex left, leaving Jonah and his pictures to finish out his grad year of high school. Jonah dream was to help rebuild New Orleans, by opening up McBee Auto Shop again, a store that closed after the hurricane. With no money the shop stayed that, a …show more content…
Picking up speed Luz felt her presents just below her hip, pushing her forward, trying to out run her. Where the other runners where trying to beat the person next to them, Luz had her own competition, on that pushed her ahead of the other girls, trying to outrun Luz herself. It was the presents of her ghost runner along with Luz newfound information that made her lost the four hundred meter dash, the only race her father watched her run. Her newfound information that she was pregnant with Jonah’s child. She told Jonah, who promised they would work it out, but when telling her father, he was not pleased. Yelling, saying he would send her to her grandmother’s in Mexico he left the house. Coming back hours later, broken and bloody from being mugged, Luz could not break her father’s wishes and began packing for Mexico. Knowing things were going to be ruff, Luz never expected that on the car drive from the airport to her grandmother’s house the driver and other passengers would be caught and Luz taken prisoner by the Cartel, and taken up into Mexico’s drug war. Jonah, after not hearing from Luz takes a road trip down to Mexico to bring her and his child home, where Luz does what she does best: run, and runs away from the cartel, Jonah, her ghost runner, and