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    With so much loss associated with Hurricane Katrina, the events leading up to the devastation should have allowed the city of New Orleans to be better prepared to undergo a category five storm. What caused the destruction, wind or water? What came first, the wind or the water? On August 29, 2005, New Orleans, Louisiana was caught in the eye of the unforgettable Hurricane Katrina. Thousands of innocent lives were lost, along with homes and businesses as a result of the rushing flood waters.…

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    Hurricane Katrina Impact

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    Hurricane Katrina was described as "one of the deadliest hurricanes to ever hit the United States" according to Kim Ann Zimmerman on livescience.com (2012). August 29, 2005 would completely change the lives of thousands of individuals and families in New Orleans, Louisiana due to impact of Hurricane Katrina. This tropical storm was categorized as a category 5 Hurricane due to the fact the damaging winds reached up to 175 miles per hour. Many people were able to evacuate before the storm became…

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    there. So because of this, we were all prepared to ride out any storm that came this way. Over the weekend, my aunt and uncle stayed with us because they were planning on evacuating on Sunday. They lived in the Broadmoor neighborhood in Uptown New Orleans so staying wasn’t an option. On Sunday the 28th, I…

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    With a vast variety of flourishing tourist attractions, New Orleans was a lively city located in the state of Louisiana, and neighbors Mississippi. Although there had been widespread natural disasters in the past, nothing could compare to the unforgettable tragedy of Hurricane Katrina. This devastating topic was chosen to be written about because of my fascination of such natural disasters, and admiration for people. My aspirations to become involved in the field of psychology in the future…

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    Katrina and the events that followed heavily influenced the poem. In her statement for the New American Poetry of Engagement, Ford states that “Living in New Orleans before and just after Hurricane Katrina made the American government and its failure to protect and aid its citizens an overwhelming and inescapable fact pressing on my mind” (216). This impactful event clearly seeps into her poem, bringing a new point of view to an already thought-provoking subject. Before I fully understood the…

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    after finding this out, they informed many people in the gulf states about what was coming there way. New Orleans knew that they were at great risk for the most damage. Even though, some of the city rests above sea level, the normal elevation is six feet below sea level. Plus, to add to the lists of downfalls, New Orleans is almost fully locked in by water. During the 20th century, New Orleans built a system of levees and seawalls to keep the city from usual flooding. The levees adjacent to…

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    British, he made a treaty with Spain, in which Spain got a New Orleans, an important city port, while France got the remaining Louisiana Purchase. Napoleon knew that it was necessary to sell the land after the war with Russia and the major defeat, his army was very weak. Although Napoleon needed the money, he still was hesitant to sell it. One source writes, “In the spring of 1803, Napoleon changed his plans. He wanted to sell Louisiana. His new goal was to take over the island of Malta. The…

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    Mollie Digby

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    Reconstruction in the South after the Civil War would prove to be a challenging endeavor for the United States having to literally re-create an entire portion of the nation. This couldn’t be any closer to the truth in the case of New Orleans, where political reform and overhaul of its past principles, was a change that would come slowly and with a lot of time. One incident during the Reconstruction period that helps underline how hard these changes would be to achieve was the kidnapping of…

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    Flood Management Plan

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    Hurricane Katrina levee’s along the Mississippi River were essentially sturdy and strong; however, the levee constructed to hold back Lake Borgne, Lake Pontchartrain, and the waterlogged swamps and marshes to the city’s west and east were less reliable. Since Hurricane Katrina, it has let other states to observe, verify, and inspect their flood control systems and implanting this catastrophic event if it happened in their cities. Sacramento has implemented and introduces an overhauling flood…

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    Hurricane Katrina Thesis

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    rescue. It requires the establishment of a family registry within six months after a storm. New Orleans has a new way to communicate to and give evacuation and alert information and inform citizens and prepare for hurricanes which is NolaReady which is an email and text message system which citizens have signed up for. The region is still recovering from Katrina, New Buildings are still being built. The New Orleans metro area 's population had dropped dramatically, from 1.386 million in 2005 to…

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