Hurricane Katrina Axial College Material Week Six COM/150 EFFECTIVE ESSAY WRITING Week 6 The effects of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans have been long-lasting and a disaster for all families in the state of Louisiana. “Hurricane Katrina was one of the strongest storms to impact the coast of the United States during the last 100 years.” It is the third most powerful hurricane to make landfall in the United States. The duration of the storm was from August 23 through August 31, 2005. The storm had a short period of time but its damages were so tragic that left long term damages. Many living in the city fled prior to the storm, but many believed the reminiscences of the storm wouldn’t be as bad as they thought and they stayed.
When the storm struck New Orleans and the levees failed, the low-lying lands flooded at record levels. As only a category 3 storm, Hurricane Katrina could have caused much less damage then it did if the levees held. The reason for the levee failure was due to an engineering fault, leaving the levees prone to malfunction. Tens of thousands of victims were either forced from their homes due to the flooding, or lost their lives trying to ride out the storm. The impoverished areas of New Orleans suffered the greatest losses because the houses were poorly built and many people were not educated on the danger of the coming storm.
Hurricane Katrina was one of the strongest storms to hit the United States. The hurricane became the costliest and one of the five most deadliest ever (Brunner). The hurricane whipped its way through Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana where it caused the most damage. Hurricane Katrina began as a tropical depression on August 23, but quickly became a mega hurricane that hit the gulf coast on August 29th 2005. The mega hurricane displaced millions and killed over 1,800 people.
The effect of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans was extremely severe, resulting from one of the most deadly natural disasters in U.S. history. By August 30th, 2005, one day after the Category 4 storm made landfall, about 80 percent of the city of New Orleans, was flooded with some parts of the city under 20 feet of water. The flood was caused by several levees breaches, which most people didn’t believe it could breach, due to a combination of a powerful storm surge, strong winds and excess water in the bodies of water surrounding the city. After reading the author’s response, her curiosity was based on her belief that the delayed response time was due to racism. She first noticed when watching the T.V.
Why was the Haitian earthquake so deadly? On January 12th 2010 at 16:53 local time (21:53 GMT) an earthquake hit the Caribbean island of Haiti. It was a colossal 7.0 on the Richter scale and lasted around 35 seconds, but inflicted a cataclysm which would take years to correct. It struck south of the capital Port-au-Prince destroying the presidential palace, UN HQ, as well as houses, schools and public buildings. The epicentre was a town named Leogane; about 19km (12 miles) west of Port-au-Prince, thousands were left homeless and up to 80-90% of buildings in Leogane were destroyed.
(Shows like “CSI” and “FBI” may give people an unrealistic expectation of these sorts of jobs.) But above all, it became very difficult and depressing for the anthropologists to work with so many depressed, anxious residents in Hardin. Everyone had lost a great deal and tensions were high during this painstaking process. The public offered family photos, medical records, and other personal affects to help identify individuals, which sometimes did make an impact, but other times, family memories proved to be ambiguous or inaccurate. The practice of embalming was not used until after the Civil War, so many bodies in caskets were already decomposed.
FEMA: Learning the Hard Way Student Name ESOL 400 Mary Warden Last Name 1 FEMA: Learning The Hard Way In August 29, 2005, one of the most devastating natural disasters struck the United States. Hurricane Katrina made an enormous damage to the people living in the Gulf Coast. The hurricane left an unimaginable suffering to people physically, psychologically, and financially. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), whose role was to prepare and organize actions necessary to warn and help people in national emergency situations, seemed to be disorganized delaying the help people needed in this particular situation. Hence, FEMA’s lack of preparation and organization led to a greater damage and suffering to people.
It took 4 days for a relief team to reach the area. Relief agencies had aid flights ready but were constantly held back by bad weather (fog, snow, avalanches).Reports suggested that people had to live under sub –zero temperatures and thousands facing starvation. Helicopters were at last able to drop supplies to three isolated villages 11 days after the event. Why is Afghanistan unable to cope with a major earthquake? Afghanistan does not have the money, the infrastructure or the technology to predict plan or cope with a major earthquake.
Carlos Espinoza July 11, 2012 Politics of Katrina What Went Wrong During Katrina: Political View. On August 29th, 2005, the city of New Orleans suffered one the worst natural disaster in the history of our nation. State, local and federal authorities failed to heed the warnings of Hurricane Katrina’s intensity. The disorganized response reflected communication failures and weak leadership at all levels of government. According to a report published by Time Magazine, the authors wrote, “is a litany of mistakes, misjudgments, lapses and absurdities all cascading together.
Hurricane Katrina The Hurricane Katrina showed the reality of the United States government for that moment. The government was unprepared to deal with a tragedy of that caliber. Surely, no country is ever prepared for something that huge and devastating, but the action plan that the States had was not enough to help the people. Let us consider the fact that the people of the United States always demanded and will demand more freedom and less government involvement in their lives, but as soon as something terrible happens, they turn back to their government and demand actions and they demand them immediately. In cases of national tragedies of that scale the government tried to do anything they could as soon as they could, that is why they