Federal Emergency Management Agency

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…

The ability to predict precisely when and where the next natural disaster, industrial accident, or terrorist attack will strike is limited. And, given the circumstances and difficulty of predicting which adversary will strike and how it will strike, DHS did the best they could. When it came to natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina. A main circumstances of DHS leadership failing was the inability to understand Katrina as an incident of national significance on par with September 11 2001…

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 state of Arizona falls under the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Region IX, which encompasses California, Hawaii, and Nevada as well as the United States territories of American Samoa and Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of the Marshall Islands. The regional office is located in Los Angeles, California and is headed by Robert J. Fenton, Jr. Mr. Fenton assumed the role as Regional Administrator in July 2015, following his…

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…

On August 29, 2005 Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast of the US. It was a category 3 storm and caused more than $100 billion worth of damage. The storm started in the Bahamas on August 23, 2005 and eventually came to the US. The coast guard had to rescue more than 34,000 people. It killed nearly 2,000 people and affected 90,000 square miles of the USA. Today 10 years after the tragic event people who were affected were able to rebuild their lives and let everything return to normal.…

Hurricanes are not uncommon among the coastal regions. Atmospheric and sea-surface conditions were conducted to cyclone’s rapid transformation and resulted in what is known as Hurricane Katrina. Hurricane Katrina was tearing apart the Gulf of Mexico. It was a Category 5 hurricane and was predicted to create several landfalls within the affected area. The wind was moving in a pattern causing a storm surge toward the city like a high tide. Due to poor construction, the floodwall broke the flood…

event more than 1,500 people were died in New Orleans. This is the government record, and others are still missing. Because of the damage caused to the resident area and houses, some people settled permanently outside the city, and in other places. Federal government , and local…

the public to effectively communicate, inundated the roads with debris, and covered entire neighborhoods along the coast with sand. In order to effectively respond to the aftermath of the storm New York City brought together numerous agencies to assist. These agencies include: Department of Sanitation, Department of Parks and Recreation, Department of Transportation, Department of Buildings, Department of Environmental Protection, Army Corps of Engineers, Department of Citywide Administrative…