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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…

The heavy damage in New Orleans and towns on the Mississippi coast in Hurricane Katrina was of a catastrophic nature with 80% of the city being flooded. (Quarantelli, 2005). Those who arrived at the scene where not prepared for what they were about to 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…

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…

Storm surge breached the levees of the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet Canal in approximately 20 places. The major levee breaches in the city included breaches at the 17th Street Canal levee, the London Avenue Canal, and the wide, navigable Inner Harbor Navigation Canal, which left approximately 80%…

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…

being its first big natural disaster. In this article Brock Long discusses the upcoming challenges FEMA will face with their funding quickly running out. Using all of their staff and resources FEMA is combating wildfires and severe storms in 20 other states. For preparation against Irma large supplies of food, bottled water, medical supplies, cots tarps for roofs, 11 million liters of water and 7.5 million meals were placed in Alabama. Along with generators and other equipment to bring in to…

no way to prepare for a disaster of this size. As the winds raged on and the waters crashed against the coast, ultimately drowning out around 80% of the state, Hurricane Katrina proved to be more than just a category five hurricane, proving to be historical, holding a position of the third deadliest hurricane that has affected the United States of America. Three reasons Hurricane Katrina proved unpreparedness were; The New Orleans levee system was…

Although Oprah Winfrey struggled as a child that did not stop her from what she does today.Oprah winfrey was born January 29, 1945 in Kosciusko, Mississippi.Oprah did not grow up with her mother and father at first. Oprah winfrey grew up with a rough childhood. Her parents abandoned her, and just left her with her grandmother. Oprah’s mother left her when she was 4 years old and moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin so Opah stayed with her grandmother. Oprah was raised very religiously because of her…

Although the DHH, CMS, and JACHO, FEMA and guide Louisiana hospital emergency preparedness plans, before hurricane Katrina, many of these regulations were more apt to handle an influx of patients, potential chemical warfare, or an armed intruder. These state and federal programs were not prepared to handle the extreme conditions and restricted communication dealt by the levee breaches. In fact many health systems were more prepared for a volcanic eruption than the flash flooding that occurred…

It’s been 12 years when we had one of the deadliest hurricanes that brought us into difficult situation. On August 29, 2005, a storm made landfall in the Gulf Coast of the United States. The rating of the storm in Saffir-Simpson was Category 3, and it had 100-140 miles per hour of sustained winds. Many people underestimated the strength of Hurricane Katrina that caused more than $100 billion in damage, and it killed almost 2,000 people. Hurricane Katrina has led to massive residential flooding…