Battle of New Orleans

Hurricane Matthew is testing the new effort by utilities and the government to make the nation’selectric grid more storm-resistant. From 2008 through 2017, the U.S. government and utilities aresupposed to spend more than $32 billion on things like smart-grid and storm-hardening technology. Thatalso includes systems that are made to resist wind, flying debris and flooding. It also allows powerproviders to identify damage and restore electric power faster.Hurricane Matthew did not really provided…

Hurricane Irma The United States has really been affected by mother nature recently, especially with Hurricane Harvey that happened in Houston, Texas. Another hurricane has started to form out in the Atlantic Ocean and it was named Irma. Hurricane Irma changed categories pretty quickly. Hopefully this hurricane does not touch land within the next couple of days. Florida has experienced quite a few hurricanes. It is hard to say when Irma actually started to form, but it has not slowed down that…

there television screen learning about new hurricanes that are headed towards land. These storms are violent winds that pick up lots of water and cause lot of damage to anything in its path. Not only is this natural disaster damaging to people and physical objects right in its path, but it hurts the economy a lot which cause for the rest of the United States or even the world to feel and suffer from the after math of the hurricane. In August of 2007 New Orleans was hit by hurricane Katrina. This…

varied in materials, offering a sense of scale and eccentricity. Hugman’s innovation falls into the category of developers like those of Daniel Burnham and Ebenezer Howard. Who were behind the ideas of the City Beautiful movement, and Garden City and New Town respectively. Today, San Antonio continues to improve and develop the River Walk. A project started in 1998 that had been ongoing for years was completed in 2013, it restored and enhanced 13 miles of the San Antonio River in directions…

destructive power that caused flipping over everything that stays on its way and flooding. According to Whitten 2015, on 08/29/2005, hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast and water flooded New Orleans. City was devastated right after levees that were keep the storm failed, and approximately 80 percent of area in New Orleans was under water. Plyer 2016, states that hurricane Katrina and the flooding caused in a lot of deaths. The main reasons of deaths were: “drowning (40%), injury and trauma…

The reason I chose to write about New Orleans city is that I wanted to learn more about it and about its infrastructure and the reasons made it vulnerable and what caused hurricane Katrina to destroy the city. Also, I found it interesting how the city recovered after hurricane Katrina so I wanted to know more about its economy and its current plans and future plans for re-engineering and rebuilding the city. What, if anything, makes this city vulnerable with regard to climate change? I…

It was beautiful day. The skies were clear and the weather was perfect. Despite this, the neighborhood seemed empty. Planes were flying in and out of Houston. Why were people leaving? Perhaps it had to do with the threat that lingered just at the coast of Texas. Hurricane Harvey was coming. Hurricane Harvey impacted all of Texas even if the Hurricane never even reached west Texas. Every last person felt a spark of dread and compassion in our hearts for those directly affected. Hurricane Harvey…

In September 1938, one America’s most deadly hurricanes raced through New England. There were a couple of conditions that made the Hurricane of ‘38 so severe.Like the weather of the New England, and the 20ft storm surge. These conditions made the hurricane much more damaging. Some of the damage sustained from the hurricane would include “entire communities wiped off the face of the Earth.”( Video). The weather that the North East was having, made a big difference on the hurricane. The…

As Cordato states North Carolina's Anti-Gouging Law in 1996: (General Statutes 75-36) (a) It shall be a violation of G.S. 75-1.1 for any person to sell or rent or offer to sell or rent at retail during a state of disaster, in the area for which the state of disaster has been declared, any merchandise or services which are consumed or used as a direct result of an emergency or which are consumed or used to preserve, protect, or sustain life, health, safety, or comfort of persons or their property…

Generally Hurricane Katrina were one of the most costly storms in U.S. history. It was a powerful storm that left thousands without homes, caused thousands to evacuate and took many lives with. However Katrina initially formed about 200 miles southeast of the Bahamas on august 23rd, 2005, as a tropical depression. (Complex) as Katrina progressed it struck the gulf coast with devastating force at daybreak on august 29,It 2005. (Complex) It hit five southern states:…