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- Severe flooding damage to Gulfport, Mississippi, New Orleans, Louisiana, and areas in between. - Some levees are overtopped in New Orleans, and there is extensive damage to the Superdome roof, where more than 10,000 people sought shelter from the storm.According to FEMA, Katrina is, "the single most catastrophic natural disaster in U.S. history…

creates land by dumping the sediment that flows down it into the Gulf of Mexico and as the sediment builds up, land is formed. The river has changed course many times over many thousands of years. If the Mississippi River had never gone towards New Orleans and gone through all the changes it has been through, southern Louisiana wouldn’t have been formed. The Mississippi River is so important in the growth of Louisiana because it is the only thing that helps build land in Louisiana. At this…

August 27, 2017, at 2 AM, I watched as the water slowly crept up to my house. I couldn’t sleep. I was sitting there, staring, at the river outside my house that used to be my driveway not knowing what else to do. I kept my phone close that night, every so often hearing the ‘ding’ that would signify that another one of my friends were either being evacuated or the water had finally found its way into their home, while I was silently hoping that the water wouldn’t choose my house to break into.…

Living a life faced with adversity it is truly remarkable the lasting impact Billy Strayhorn was capable of having on the development of jazz. He is acknowledged for being an exceptional pianist, composer, arranger and possessing one of the greatest compositional voices in the 20th century. He was truly an under appreciated revolutionary force decades ahead of his time, even while being the first closeted then out black gay man in a particularly homophobic environment of an all black male jazz…

Politics after Katrina Disasters put a lot of pressure on everyone that it affects. Every person hearing the news or living through feels some kind of pain. When people are affected, it eventually means politics will have to show its ugly head. Politics and disasters do not mix well at all. Notably was hurricane Katrina. According to the article, Politics after Katrina, published by Jake Elliott (2010) Katrina was the largest natural disaster to hit the mainland United States to date. Combine…

damaging buildings and power lines which causes a widespread disruption in the technology system. Hurricane Sandy high winds knocked down trees and damaged the power lines which caused a widespread power outage in my community and throughout the state of New Jersey. The Disaster Assistance identifies types of disaster…

Hurricane Camille Overview: Hurricane Camille was the third and most powerful tropical cyclone of the twentieth century. On August 5, 1969, the forecast recognized a typical tropical storm off the coast of Africa. The storm started on August 14, 1969 and continued through August 22, 1969. This storm took many by surprise when the winds began to kick in and destroy everything in sight. This storm started off as a tropical storm; yet, when the winds reached 97 km, they declared it a hurricane.…

accepted to white Americans. Every weekend a variety of people would go into club like Cotton located in Chicago and, listen to jazz performed by African Americans. As the same token as, the commercial radio. The airwaves became the medium to hear their news and entertainment. Its purpose was to support the growth of the consumer culture, local stations linked up with national station, such as: NBC or CBS. As well as motion pictures, eclipsed all other forms of entertainment. Major industry…

The Atchafalaya River The Atchafalaya River is a distributary of the Red River and Mississippi River section in part of the southern portion in central Louisiana. The Atchafalaya is a one hundred and thirty seven mile long distributary of the Mississippi and Red Rivers. The name "Atchafalaya" comes from the Choctaw language and translates to long river from hachcha, “river" and falaya, "long.” During the fifteenth century the Mississippi River and the Red River were separated. These two rivers…

The Role of Social Support in Disaster Stress Imagine two vulnerable communities hit by a Category 4 typhoon. At the aftermath of that typhoon, there was no electricity available, all communication lines are down, food supply are running out and wherever you look at, there are uprooted trees and damaged houses. Everything was simply chaotic and the people are becoming hopeless. However, at the onset of recovery what makes the two communities starkly different from each other is the level of…