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On August 29, New Orleans was hit by Hurricane Katrina, one of the “largest and 3rd strongest hurricane ever recorded to make landfall in the US” according to (Holden, 2006) until recent natural disasters. Thousands of civilians were affected personally and financially. Hurricane Katrina started in the Gulf of Mexico and moved west to New Orleans. Around August 26-27, 2005. The Mayor at the time Clarence Ray Nagin, Jr. ordered an emergency evacuation after getting a call from Max Mayfair…

Hurricane Katrina was one of the worst hurricanes in the history of the United States. The hurricane is stilled ranked the third of all hurricanes. Katrina killed at least 1,245 people. Katrina has been the deadliest hurricane since 1928, Okeechobee hurricane. Katrina done about 108 billion damage, 4* more damage than hurricane Andrew, in 1992 in the United States. Katrina originated over the Bahamas on August 23 from the interaction between a tropical wave and the Tropical Depression Ten. The…

Sights, Sounds, and Smells of Sandy I remember waking up that October morning. It was unusually cold and windy outside, especially for Orlando, Florida, where I was vacationing with my family at a Walt Disney World resort. We weren’t going to let a little cold weather stop us from enjoying “the most magical place on Earth,” so we bundled up in layers and headed out for another day of fun. After a long day full of memories and laughs, we returned to our hotel room and turned on the…

Dead men Floating Summary When a bad storm entered the small town of Hardin, Missouri the river of Missouri overflowed its banks and flooded the town. The flood water covered more than twenty million acres of land. Fifty five thousand homes were ether destroyed or damaged. Exactly fifty people died.The damages would cost up to fifteen billion dollars. The bad thing about it was Hardin was only six miles north of the Missouri river so the town people knew it was only a matter of time before…

Haiti in Crisis In Upfront magazine, “Haiti in Crisis is about Haiti’s devastations. On October 16, Hurricane Mathew hit Haiti and other Caribbean countries with torrential rain and 145 mile-per-hour winds destroyed everything in its path. The hurricane killed more than 1,000 people, 175,000 homeless, and left 13% of the population required assistance with food, shelter, and medical care. Haiti is more vulnerable than the other countries because it’s the poorest country in the Western…

People are Good As a whole, I believe that people, at their core, are naturally moral and unselfish. Agreeing with Locke’s argument, humans are “social animals”, putting the health of the greater good over personal, selfish wants and desires. When humans see other humans in times of need and struggle, majority of us do something to help. It may be as simple as donating a dollar or the change from their wallet, but it is an effort to make someone's life better. Think about the destruction…

Katrina made its second and third landfalls in the Gulf Coast area on August 29, 2005 as a Category three hurricane. A neighborhood TV channel reported New Orleans was encountering broad flooding due to a few levee breaks, the city was without electricity, and there were a few cases of massive damage in the area. In brief timing, whole neighborhoods were engulfed in water. Due the rapid flooding, numerous residents became stranded, long after Hurricane Katrina had passed, and could be seen on…

September 10, the day of the hurricane, is also a national holiday for British Honduras, on which many locals gather in the streets to celebrate the defeat of Spanish conquerors by the British in 1798.[6] It is widely believed that the hurricane struck without any warning, although some recent historians have disputed this. In his column for The Belize Times on September 5, 2004, Emory King claimed that Belizean authorities withheld continuous warnings from U.S. ships in the region of a possible…

Natural disasters, such as hurricanes affect millions of people each year, but thanks to organizations such as FEMA, the people who are affected don't have to go through the rebuilding process alone. This past week one of the most powerful hurricanes hit the gulf coast with another one following not too far behind. Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma have done billions of dollars of damage to homes and business all throughout the Gulf Coast from Florida to Texas. FEMA not only faces an immense…

The Lewis and Clark expedition was requested to start on January 18, 1803. The president at the time, Thomas Jefferson, asked congress to give two thousand five hundred dollars for exploration of the trans-Mississippi west. This was approved on February twenty eighth. President Jefferson hand chose Lewis for the exploration. Lewis then hand chose Clark as his second in command. Lewis and Clark shared command over a crew of forty solders, boatmen, hunters and a large dog. This…