Louisiana State Capitol

Every year numerous catastrophes happens around the globe causing demise and ruination. Disfiguring winds and serious flooding caused people to lose their existence. Hurricane Katrina was one of the coolest hurricane in United States history. It was really misinterpret breakdown of communication between the people and the government after the appearance of Hurricane Katrina. Which produced lack of experience in authorities positive and unnecessary demise that show some expression such as…

facing recent attempts. To begin, the Everglades has had a lot of history to it. Some of this history might teach you something new. In passage one lines nine through twenty one state, “Seminole and Miccosukee tribes lived in the Everglades prior to 1882...Settlers from outside of Florida came to the Everglades…” it also states that they began to “convert the land” building railroad systems, canals, etc. The Everglades has had…

Flooding Hurricane Katrina caused a storm surge, which is when a Hurricane causes sea levels to rise dramatically. This makes areas near the coast extremely vulnerable to flooding and it is usually this affect that has the most impact on human lives. As Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, the levees protecting the city were overcome by the storm surge and the enormous waves, made by the extreme winds of the storm. As the levees gave way, huge areas of New Orleans were flooded and according to…

ones (Galea & Brewin, 2007). The current barriers were supported by steel beams extending to about 19.8 meters below the sea levels thereby making them much stronger (McKay, 2006). Before the hurricane disaster, most of the agency of New Orleans, Louisiana and Mississippi lacked a proper hurricane plan, and most of the officers in the towns did not have any formal…

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 uncertainty and inconsistency. (Schneider, 2005). The government systems found this all to be very true when they aided in the recovery of those affected. Louisiana, local governmental units were overwhelmed with the magnitude of the disaster. Hence, they…

Ethical and moral dilemmas seem to affect decision maker at several levels during Katrina. At the federal level President Bush was faced with the dilemma of whether to order a federal takeover of the crisis management from state and local government. The issue of letting local officials to continue to handle the situation even when he knew they were overwhelmed and federal assistance was late in coming was balanced against thoughts of how much can be done to help the crisis if he were to…

The National Weather Service issued emergency warnings for "dangerous and possibly life threatening" flash floods in parts of South Carolina Saturday. Parts of the state saw over a foot of rain and rainfall records broken. Heavy rains battered much of the East Coast Saturday and Sunday, causing power outages and traffic accidents which have left four people dead since Thursday. The storms are the result of a confluence of extreme weather events: Hurricane Joaquin over the open Atlantic and a…

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…

1. Situation: The recent catastrophic (Hurricane Maria Aftermath) rains and sustained winds have caused havoc, resulting in the most damaging floods within Fort Allen premises to include all facilities assigned to the 201st Regiment (MF) RTI. Consequently, not only is it having devastating effect on livelihoods all infrastructure has been severely impacted in the affected areas including telecommunications. 2. Request the use of the classrooms C110, C120 (A&B), C140 (A&B), and C150 B located…

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…