Winn Parish, Louisiana

Katrina vs. Harvey According to NASA, hurricanes are the most violent storms on Earth. Most of them, as reported by the National Weather Service’s Climate Prediction Center, hit during the peak of hurricane season, which is between August and October on both the Atlantic and the Eastern Pacific coasts. The two most memorable hurricanes—Katrina and Harvey—made their landfall in the United States in August. In addition to this, the two hurricanes share many other similarities and differences.…

seventy five miles per hour putting the hurricane into a category five(" Hurricane Katrina...") . Hence, Ray Nagin announced the first ever mandatory evacuation of New Orleans, while President George Bush spoke with FEMA director Michael Brown, Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco, Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, Florida Governor Jeb Bush, and Alabama Governor Bob Riley to " order mandatory evaluations for those in threatened zones." (Ouellette 28; Brinkley 25). Finally on August 29, the…

sure that its citizens are alright if an issue arises. According to Debarshi Chaudhuri (2010), “The Governor of Louisiana, Kathleen Babineaux Blanco decided to declare a state of emergency in Louisiana on August 26, 2005.” The next day, on the federal level, Bush who was president at the time complied. After this, FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) began to take action in Louisiana. The mayor at the time, C. Ray Nagin had officially declared an evacuation of the city on August 28th, 2005…

A 100 and 500-year flood will create city-wide damage to residential, commercial, and municipal infrastructure. Fargo had many major floods that brought many properties, homes, and buildings submerged under water and created destruction. For instance, 1997 and 1897 Red River floods were the biggest floods that occurred in Fargo, North Dakota that flooded most of the city. After 1997, the government built stronger neighborhood and city dikes. Besides, each flooding warning, the government orders…

store you could think of whipped out of food and water due to the massive hurricane on its way. August 23, 2005 - August 31, 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit which affected several states mainly New Orleans, Louisiana. Most of Houston was affected as well as Galveston. It left many people in Louisiana without shelter, clothing, food and water due to the massive flooding throughout the city. Everyone evacuated before it got worse. Majority of the people came to Houston, Texas. Everyone in the Houston…

continues to impact the rest of Louisiana. Being from a minute school certainly had the advantages a student would enjoy going to. Small classrooms along with small class sizes made teaching and learning possible. With that came achievement and recognition; the school was given the “Award of Excellence.” These two events have influenced one massive issue. After the hurricane many people left New Orleans to find new homes thus being mainly on the North Shore of Louisiana: minor flooding, close to…

The Mississippi River is a 2,340 mile long river. The name Mississippi comes from the Anishinaabe people who called the river 'Misi-ziibi' which means 'great river.’ Throughout that river is beauty, and mystery for those who seek it. In Mark Twain’s “Life On The Mississippi” describes his experiences on the Mississippi River, and how his viewpoint of the river changed from a positive to negative using figurative, and descriptive language. Twain begins with describing the face of the water in…

write Louisiana’s constitution and declaring himself a republican, he was the governor of the U.S. state for a little over a month while Henry C. Warmth was fighting impeachment. Before he was the U.S. governor, he was the Louisiana governor. This was very ironic because Louisiana was in the south, and since he was an African-American, the people wouldn’t treat him well. Then he became the very first African-American U.S. governor. After everything with Henry C. Warmth was settled out, he…

Hurricane Katrina was a devastating natural disaster that took the lives of many and affected millions across the nation. The government failed the people of New Orleans by giving faulty information about Katrina , taking too long to deliver supplies, and giving money to people who did not need it. The people of New Orleans were not expecting hurricane Katrina to be as fatal or relentless as it was. The “key federal officials were not proactive, they gave faulty information to the public, and…

Federalism and Hurricane Katrina: Hurricane Katrina, one of the biggest National disasters we have see in twenty years was an ordeal that exposed some of the problems with our federal system of response to national disasters. The idea of federalism in the United States is that the power is shared and divided into many different branches and governments. This system provides democracy and makes a totalitarian takeover almost impossible. However, this system also so has downfalls, the system of…