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of the most devastating and costly. One named hurricane Opal hit Florida, Alabama, and Tennessee in 1995. It’s damage cost $5.1 billion. In 2003 hurricane Isabel hit North Carolina and impacted other banks. It costed $5.3 billion. Another was hurricane Floyd which was especially catastrophic because of the rain causing extreme flooding. It hit North Carolina and up the east coast as a Cat. 2 and travelled North. It’s damage was $6.9 billion. Hurricane Hugo was a Cat. 4 storm in South Carolina…

Hurricanes are not uncommon among the coastal regions. Atmospheric and sea-surface conditions were conducted to cyclone’s rapid transformation and resulted in what is known as Hurricane Katrina. Hurricane Katrina was tearing apart the Gulf of Mexico. It was a Category 5 hurricane and was predicted to create several landfalls within the affected area. The wind was moving in a pattern causing a storm surge toward the city like a high tide. Due to poor construction, the floodwall broke the flood…

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…

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…

Introduction The Impacts and effects that Hurricane Katrina had on the United States and how it impacted America socially, economically and politically during this time period it happened until now. Hurricane Katrina was an extremely destructive and deadly category 5 hurricane that cause catastrophic damage along the gulf coast from central Florida to Texas. Much due to the storm surge and levee failure. In addition, severe property damage occurred in coastal areas such as Mississippi beachfront…

Danny Glover once stated, “When Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf and the floodwaters rose and tore through New Orleans, it did not turn the region into a Third World country…it revealed one” (Glover). In the wake of this darkness, Hurricane Katrina proved to America that as a nation, there was 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…

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…

Devastation, destruction, trauma. These are just three awful things that come from the hurricanes. Recently Hurricane Harvey left southern Texas torn into pieces, and many people terrified. This nine day hurricane left cities in shambles. Derrick Freeman, the mayor of Port Arthur said, “Our whole city is underwater.” These hurricanes can be ghastly, and many react differently. Hurricanes can also be utterly deadly. According to the New York Times, “At least 39 people have died…” Although…

Katrina whipped through the Miami area, snapped trees and power lines the National Weather Service clocked wind speeds of 87 miles per hour. Katrina was already a level 1 hurricane. The storm was stronger than many people expected. Siding came off houses, and wind scattered debris. Sheets of rain flooded the streets, Before Hurricane Katrina made landfall, Governor Katrine Babineaux Blanco declared a state of emergency in Louisiana on August 26, 2005, and asked President Bush to do the same at…

Lessons learned from Hurricane Katrina The tragedy formed a great baseline for the development of better communication and evacuation policies to help during disaster management such as Hurricane Katrina. Such lessons led to the institution of the Army Corps of Engineers who helped in the reconstructions of the destroyed sleeves and making the barriers much higher than the initial ones (Galea & Brewin, 2007). The current barriers were supported by steel beams extending to about 19.8 meters…