Hurricane Katrina

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 storm was the deadliest hurricane to…

slow-moving Category three hurricane or larger will flood the city. There will be between 17 and 20 feet of standing water, and New Orleans as we now know it will no longer exist." —Ivor van Heerden, October 29, 2004. Hurricanes are natural disasters that cannot be prevented but can be prepared for. Hurricane Katrina formed on August 23rd, 2005. Over the last hundred years, hurricane Katrina is one of the strongest storms to impact the coast of United States of America. Hurricane Katrina has…

The Causes of the Hurricane Katrina Disaster Introduction The Hurricane Katrina disaster occurred at 6:10 am on the Monday morning 29th of August, 2005 ( Heerden et al. 2009, p. 292 ). It was one of the most mighty cyclones around category 4-5 that the coast of America had never met before, strong winds, large rainfall, waves and cyclones were brought by it to attack the Gulf of Mexico shores of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama ( ASCE 2007, p. v). At the end of the disaster, the flooding…

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…

for being a city under sea level, and for being a place that has a high risk of hurricanes that there was no plan for a catastrophic event like Hurricane Katrina. Another thing that surprised me was the amount of time it took the Federal Government to come and send help to those affected by the storm. All of the dead bodies, all of the people that were struggling to find a way to survive, and the destruction of Katrina to the city all horrified me. The National Government, also know…

21, 2016 Hurricanes and tornadoes have been occurring time to time causing massive havoc and destruction of property along their path. In this paper we are going to talk about one hurricane that occurred recently and caused a lot of damage, hurricane KATRINA. Hurricane Katrina was the third deadliest hurricane of all time to have ever hit the United States of America. The hurricane Katrina originated in the coast of Bahamas where it was formed Hurricane Katrina caused major havoc…

Approximately 10 years after the disaster that was Katrina, people still mourn the existence of their serene lives before the storm. Katrina’s powers left millions homeless and close to a thousand dead. Though most of houses were rebuilt and business is back to normal, the cities and towns affected by this tragedy will never be the same. In late August 2005, a tropical storm, soon to be known as one of the biggest hurricanes in American history, formed over the Bahamas.…

The heavy damage in New Orleans and towns on the Mississippi coast in Hurricane Katrina was of a catastrophic nature with 80% of the city being flooded. (Quarantelli, 2005). Those who arrived at the scene where not prepared for what they were about to encounter. This process works sequentially from the bottom up: It starts at the local level, works through the states, and passes on to the federal government. In the case of Katrina, the response began slowly, with a general feeling of…

that a hurricane was coming to my city; New Orleans, Louisiana. Because of this storm, Hurricane Katrina, I was told that I would most likely have to move away for a long time; which meant the rest of my life. The hurricane ended up destroying the entire city completely. This was heartbreaking to me for a plethora of reasons, the main one being that I was so young and was just getting a taste of what the rest of my life had to offer. My life has never been the same since Hurricane Katrina. My…

Americans experienced during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. However, stories like these were almost never covered by journalists and therefore the world would not find out about this, not until years or so after the storm. Instead, what journalists covered during Hurricane Katrina were stories or reports that targeted African Americans, and this angered the African American community because these stories…