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September 11, 2001 terrorist attack to put it back as a high priority. The only difference (when it started to receive the spotlight again) is that FEMA was placed under the Department of Homeland Security. This caused a few problems down the road (i.e. Hurricane Katrina emergency…

Hurricane Katrina Hurricane Katrina has been one the most devastating natural disasters to hit USA ever costing a total of 125 billion dollars, and leaving almost 1000 dead. We need to look at ways of preventing such a disaster. As this is the only problem, we can predict and perceive how dangerous a hurricane can be but preventing one is a different matter entirely. The U.S. National Hurricane Centre (NHC) reported on August 23…

Intro: Hurricane Katrina is an important event in history because it was a devastating hurricane that, damaged parts of the United States, the Federal government were unprepared, what has FEMA Changed to be more prepared? What happened after Hurricane Katrina hit? Thesis: Hurricane katrina caused damages to the united states and the United states was affected by the impact of the storm. History: Hurricane Katrina a devastating storm also known as a tropical depression that hit the Gulf Coast…

Hurricane Katrina was both completely expected, and wholly unprepared for. The National Hurricane Center 's mathematical models predicted that the storm wouldn 't hit New Orleans at all. At the time Hurricane Katrina was building, there was a front moving across the United States, and was expected to hit Hurricane Katrina, and the storm would rebound it across the Florida peninsula, right around Orlando and Lake Buena Vista. All of the models available for modeling the storm predicted this…

Haley Barbour was one of the few people that believed in President Bush’s decisions during the crisis. Haley Barbour is the Governor of Mississippi that wrote a book called America’s Great Storm: Leading Through Hurricane Katrina. Barbour did an interview with National Geographic mainly about why did he remain loyal to President Bush while everyone was against his judgment. His reply to why he stayed loyal to President Bush he said, “I understood that for the next…

Tim Story realistic and relatable concepts in his movies are what make him a remarkable director. Films like Think Like a Man 2, Taxi, and Hurricane Season all have the protagonist’s plan backfire, the protagonist tries really hard to impress people, and the protagonist’s achieves an understanding with the antagonist. The protagonist’s creates a plan with good intention but it ends up backfiring. In Taxi, Detective Andy after a lot of traffic accidents gets his license revoke and gets demoted by…

In the early hours of August 29th 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast and surrounding areas of the United States. Whilst moving towards land in the form of Florida on the 25th of August 2005, Katrina started of as a tropical storm then slowly turned into a category one hurricane. After passing Florida, the hurricane gradually increased to category two and then three and then, when around 300 or so miles out from New Orleans(8), it reached a category five level when winds amounted to…

other types of stressors. Natural disasters are hurricanes, tornados, floods and fires, and earthquakes. The focus of this paper will be limited to disasters that have occurred in the continental United States. Many of these disasters can cause serious harm, injuries and even death to people who have the misfortune of being in the path of these disasters. Some are so severe they can destroy a home, entire neighborhoods,…

preparedness was tested to the limits against a natural disaster. Hurricane Katrina was categorized as a 3 on the Saffir-Simpson Scale, which meant that it was an extreme hurricane but that was not the end of it. The aftermath of the hurricane was the worst, all of the citizens living in New Orleans believed the worst was over when the storm calmed down but the worst was yet to come. The response system to aid the survivors of Hurricane Katrina was very slow and we can thank FEMA for that. The…

Hurricane Katrina was a huge part of American History. It caused a lot of people to be out of homes and work. The people affected by Katrina had to be dependent on the government for almost everything. Hurricane Katrina had many factors such as the hurricane itself, the federal government involvement and how they warned the people, and the aftermath of the hurricane Hurricane Katrina had a great impact to the places that it hit. Hurricane Katrina destroyed gulf coast cities and 150 miles of…