Louisiana

Martinville was still part of the French colony of Louisiana many slaves from the Senegambian region, St. Louis, and Goree Island provided essential knowledge of agricultural technology, which was used to produce crops in the hot summer months. Spanish and French colonial law provided the means for a number…

are more powerful than category three. Many people were evacuated from their home were not provided with proper temporary accommodation. Due to the lack of proper management and with all the confusion of Ex-President’s administration people from Louisiana were shifted to superdome of New Orleans. This rose to a problem in providing facilities by the government. Due to the severe attack of Hurricane Katrina many things have changed in the places affected by Katrina. Thousands of homes were…

My senior year could have not started any better. On July 30th, 2015 I get a call from Coach Brock Hayes from Louisiana College offering me a scholarship to play at the college level. Ever since I was small, I always dreamed about playing college football and it finally came to reality. Fall camp was getting ready to start, and I was so excited to get my senior season started. I put in so much work and effort to get into the position I was in, so I was not going to let my team down. But like…

lifetime. His home on the hill faced northeast just above the land he so loved. On April 24, 1908 Delaney experienced what news reports hailed as the third worst tornado outbreak in the history of Mississippi. The storm traveled 150 miles through Louisiana and Mississippi. Damage at Poplar Hill was so extensive it took three days after the storm before his sons found Delaney. Suffering serious injuries from a tree crashing into the house and pinning Delaney down. Agitated and extremely…

few years ago. Everyone, it seemed, knew the risks. Scientists at Louisiana State University had warned that even a Category 3 storm could dump up to 27 feet of water in some neighborhoods” (Gilgoff et al. 27). Although, a possibility may reveal why the levees were not upgraded. “Decreases in funding for hurricane protection began four years ago and have come fast and furious since then. This year, representatives from Louisiana asked for $27.1 million for hurricane protection, saw the request…

catching up to the education of my grade level, and learned subjects such as science, history, computer science, and algebra. I was able to complete four full years at this school with perfect attendance. On August, 2008, Hurricane Gustav stroke Louisiana and forced my family to evacuate. It was my first time experiencing a devastating natural disaster, which heavily impacted my home and school. Despite the trouble with communication, we evacuated safely for a week to Las Vegas, California.…

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 around 175 mph. Moving through Louisiana, wind speeds decreased to 120 mph but Katrina still being at a category three level. It then started calming down more than 150 miles inland near Meridian, Mississippi by downgrading to a tropical depression(1). Hurricane…

S., Katrina affected over ninety thousand people in the U.S. . . . In Louisiana there were one thousand four hundred and sixty four deaths , in Mississippi two hundred and eighty three deaths , fourteen deaths in Florida and two deaths in Georgia . After getting the death toll of over all there were two hundred unclaimed bodies and in Louisiana in August 8, 2006 there were still one hundred thirty five bodies missing. Louisiana had studied the deaths and noticed a seventy one percent of the…

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…

Hurricane Katrina was one of the worst hurricanes in the history of the United States. The hurricane is stilled ranked the third of all hurricanes. Katrina killed at least 1,245 people. Katrina has been the deadliest hurricane since 1928, Okeechobee hurricane. Katrina done about 108 billion damage, 4* more damage than hurricane Andrew, in 1992 in the United States. Katrina originated over the Bahamas on August 23 from the interaction between a tropical wave and the Tropical Depression Ten. The…