Louisiana Voodoo

The New Orleans is a Louisiana city beside the Mississippi River, near the Gulf of Mexico. The Nickname for New Orleans is Big Easy. New Orleans is named after the Duke of Orleans, who reigned as Regent for Louis XV from 1715 to 1723. Beginning of the Morrison's administration, and for the entirety of Schiro's, the city was a center of the Civil Rights Movement. In 2005 New Orleans was catastrophically hit by the Hurricane Katrina like other places of USA. In this sad event more than 1,500…

It was the failure of the levees on the Industrial channel that caused devastating flooding to the surrounding Ninth Ward neighbourhood leading to many social implications within the community. The levee failure caused a torrent of water to pour into the neighbourhood with buoyancy forces that caused 125 structures to float onto the roads (Green et al. 2007), with more structures requiring demolition due to damage. It was the Ninth Ward district that also experienced the greatest loss of life…

Louisiana Wetland Loss The loss of Louisiana's seaside wetlands is a standout amongst the most genuine natural issues confronting the nation today. Louisiana brags more than 4 million sections of land of wetlands, speaking to 40% of the country's aggregate. These wetlands are among the world's most different and gainful biological communities. In the blink of an eye, Louisiana's wetlands are in a condition of fast debasement. 80% of the country's beach front area misfortune happens in…

Hurricane Sandy pummeled New York City with tumultuous wind, rain, and storm surge. The storm flooded thousands of homes along the coast, caused mass power outages that reduced the ability of 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,…

Heavy rains caused flash flooding across the Southern Tier last night, and some drivers were caught ignoring warnings about traveling on flooded roads. Tuesday, a section of Woodlawn Avenue was flooded with about two feet of water. It was cleared by Wednesday, but the Chemung County Emergency Management Office is reminding residents that when flash flooding occurs, turn around don't drown. "The incident over on Woodland Avenue under the railroad overpass, West 13th Street in Elmira Heights…

Greetings everyone. Today 8 lucky people will have the opportunity to accompany me Abdulla Hassan The president of the student for philanthropy organization this summer to Haiti on a mission to help rebuild their nation after the January 12, 2010 earthquake (Taft-Morales). Our main job will be to help those fellow human beings to rebuild their nation after the earthquake struck. As we may be aware, it has been more than five years now since the tragedy. Despite this fact, it has been difficult…

expected that the hurricane would be almost entirely gone by that day and will not appear - the greatest threat of damage shifted to a region near the Texas-Louisiana state line. The loss of power at a flood-crippled chemical plant in Port Arthur, Texas set off "popping" and fire early Thursday, and the city of Beaumont, near the Texas-Louisiana line, lost its public water supply Thursday. The plant was being monitored for further chemical reactions. Harvey's remnants pushed deeper inland,…

As the Spitfire neared the port city of Nassau, its pristine, white sandy beaches along the coastline sparkled brilliantly in the late afternoon sun. Thomas had decided to check in and see if he could form an alliance there for trade purposes. The Captain had avoided Nassau during the years Thomas sailed with him, stating that most of the trading ventures there was still run by filthy profiteers that would just as soon gut you and take what you had to offer, as to do legitimate business with…

It seems that you cannot watch television or turn on your computer without seeing floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, fires or terrorist attacks happening all across the world. These threats can take devastating tolls on communities. In everyday life you don’t think something like that can happen to you or your community. Just look at what happened in 1998, a category five hurricane devastated Central America. Within hours, minutes, and even seconds, everything a person has and knows…

2005, the town was a big mess, without any help it was a disaster and a trainwreck.. With nobody to come to the rescue it was everyone for themselves. The hurricanes name was Katrina and it was a category three hurricane. It devastated the state of Louisiana and was a vicious storm. Over 80% of the larger roads and major areas were flooded by this storm. This lasted for weeks and the outcome was not only painful to think about but horrible to witness. In 2005 during the coastal hurricane season…