Levee

History of Dams, Locks and Levees The conception of dams, locks and levees. Water is an essential resource which life depends on. Civilizations in the past have evolved to exist around water as it provides a source of food, transportation, and trade. However, people realized that they were unable to extract the potential that water as a resource had. Thus, in order to harness energy of water, to use it as means of transportation and to utilize hoard of other benefits of a resource like water and…

will generally drive home the learned tasks. Since January 4th, 2016 alone, I have participated in two separate emergency operational events at a managerial level. With unexpected water level increased off the Mississippi River caused a repeat of levee flooding near the southern part of Louisiana and more recently the massive amounts of thunderstorms across the entire state have caused severed flooding in several parishes. Both instances required the activation of several hundred Louisiana…

Disasters form when hazards and vulnerability factors collide. The underlying causes, conditions, triggers and inadequate measures to reduce risk are all important aspects to consider when studying disasters. I will be using the social vulnerability perspective in this essay to examine the floods that occurred in Pakistan in 2010. These floods were considered to be a massive humanitarian disaster, leaving millions suffering through loss and insecurity. Specifically, I will be taking a practical…

the Gulf Coast of the United States. Katrina came in as a category 5 storm. When the storm made landfall, it was a category 3 on a hurricane scale. The wind of Katrina was 100-140mph and had stretched 400 miles. The storm did a load of damage, the levee had breached so that had led to flooding. People estimated that the…

missed New Orleans when at the last minute it veered slightly to the east,” in the opinion of an impassioned New Orleans radio personality, Garland Robinette. “The worst winds to hit the city were of Category 1 or 2 force, he says. But even then, the levee…

The Reign of Terror: Was it Justified? Should an individual be put to death because of an opinion about society? Subpar conditions in France caused Maximilien Robespierre, the leader of the radical phase of the French Revolution, to enact the “Reign of Terror”, which was an extremely violent response to the reign of Louis XVI by the revolutionary government. During this period of two years, the Guillotine, or “National Razor” dropped a heavy blade on the necks of thousands of people who were…

“Naked use of force has accomplished more for the human race than other endeavor.” Societies wage wars for any number of reason but the scale and scope of conflict is determined by ultimate end state of the conflict. This endstate is tied to development of instrument ( the army), national will, and resources mobilization. Limited war is characterized by the restrained use of weapons and military options while Total war is a conflict of unlimited scope in which a belligerent engages in a…

August 29, 2005 was a tragic day for the residents in Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, and Alabama. It was a day that would change their lives. On August 25, Hurricane Katrina hit land in Florida as a Category 1 hurricane with winds of 40 mph. On August 28, in the Gulf of Mexico, Katrina became a Category 5 with winds of 175 mph. At 6:10 on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, Louisiana. When it finally reached Louisiana on August 29, it had weakened to a Category 3 with…

Hurricanes are usually caused engineering communications` destructions, houses destructions flooding and a lot of deaths. The most deadly hurricane for the entire history of the United States was the hurricane Katrina that destroyed everything that was on its way. The importance of this hurricane, the way of how it was created, and what government did to help people before and after the hurricane is written below. Last few classes we watched 4 parts of film about Katrina hurricane. According…

eventually flood it out. This is how New Orleans is, some areas sit as low as six feet below sea level and some areas sit as high as twenty feet above sea level. The solution to this problem is the levee system that New Orleans has in place around the city. This bring our second issue into play, the levee system in New Orleans was built to keep the water out of New Orleans. The city had to replace the levees after Katrina destroyed them because they could not withstand a category 5…