Louisiana

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…

The storm dropped two categories up to a category 3 before it made landfall along the Louisiana-Mississippi border on August 29 with continuous winds at speed 120 mph. A wind that blew that speed had a lot of destructive power that caused flipping over everything that stays on its way and flooding. According to Whitten 2015, on 08/29/2005…

still alive in her imagination as heralds of apocalypse. “Any day now the fabric of the Universe is comin’ unravelled,” she says. The film is set in the region beyond the levees of southern Louisiana, in which uneven porches and sidewalks show the fact that the land is gradually sinking. Hushpuppy…

enormous damage in the Bahamas, Florida and Louisiana. While it made its first landfall at Key Largo in Florida, Betsy did its greatest damage after the second landfall on September 9 near the mouth of the Mississippi River, causing significant flooding of the waters of Lake Pontchartrain into New Orleans. Seventy-six people were killed by “Billion-Dollar Betsy” but I survived. Izzy Hannah is my name and I moved to the Ninth Ward in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1949 and bought my lot for $200.…

since shallow coastal waters tend to lack cold water, it can diffuse storm power. The evaporation of water from the ocean creates condensation and thus releases latent heat from evaporation, resulting in a storm and further to a hurricane. Also Louisiana has several wetland areas, and due to the construction of levees and flood walls, these back-swamps no longer receive sediments. This resulted in much of New Orleans is below sea level prior to the catastrophic event. Furthermore, New Orleans is…

options in the city of Baton Rouge? Governments can charge people money to enter all the lanes on major commuting roads during peak hours especially. This would allow more people to travel in the lanes every hour, rather than heavy contested traffic. Louisiana natives are becoming more frustrated by the policymaker’s inability to do anything about this problem. Although governments may never be able to eliminate road congestion,…

Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale–it brought sustained winds of 100–140 miles per hour–and stretched some 400 miles across. The storm itself did a great deal of damage, but its aftermath was catastrophic.” (“Hurricane” 1) Homes that had stretched from Louisiana to Mississippi to Alabama had been demolished by this cataclysmic storm. When atrocious events like this one occur, society's dependence on the government increases yet the government is not always going to be able to respond as fast as…

Gabriel Montegut, born in July 30, 1839, was the great-grandson of Dr. Gabriel Montegut, who came to Louisiana from France in 1760. Dr. Montegut held a military commission as a surgeon under Spanish rule, and was the first resident surgeon of the Charity Hospital in New Orleans. Dr. Montegut’s wife, Francoise Delisle Dupart’s family came to Louisiana with Bienville. One of their sons and grandfather of Gabriel, Edgar Montegut was the mayor of New Orleans in 1844 and established St. Sophie…

how the world can learn lessons from it. A quote from Edward Barbier states that “For the parts of the world that have extremely vulnerable populations, I think there are lessons that can be learned from the planning strategy that took place in Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina”. He is basically saying that people can learn a very valuable lesson from Hurricane Katrina and can learn from better planning and strategizing. After causing about $110 billon dollars in damages, Hurricane Katrina…

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.…