...market in New Orleans after hurricane Katrina Table of contents 1. Introduction………………………………………………………………………3 2. Pre-Katrina situation ………………………..…………………………………..4 3. After-Katrina situation…………………………………………………………..6 4. Current situation New Orleans….………………………………………………8 5. Conclusion……………………………………………………………………...…9 6. References…………………………………………………………………….….10 Introduction It is August 29th of 2005 when the United States of America is badly affected by one of history’s most catastrophic nature disasters. Hurricane Katrina hits the south of New Orleans and causes severe damage to this city. This second biggest hurricane in the entire history of America left 80 percent of New Orleans flooded, approximately 80 billion dollars of damage and more than 1800 killed civilians. Due to this disaster, New Orleans was almost completely destroyed including the residences of thousands of families. Not only were there economic enormous problems but also political questions rose by that time. The president by then, president Bush, came in discredit because of cutting in the federal funding which was protecting New Orleans. Since then a lot of things have actually changed but unfortunately, too late. Complete neighborhoods were removed from the map, people became homeless and moved to different places. The effects on the housing market in New Orleans were immense. Because of the effect hurricane Katrina had on the housing market in New Orleans, the question...
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...New Orleans was originally founded on high ground overlooking the Mississippi River, above sea level. Also surrounded by Lake Pontchartrain and Lake Borgne, New Orleans was susceptible to hurricanes that would come up the coast into the Gulf. Originally New Orleans was naturally protected by “coastal swamps that helped absorb the energy of storm surges before they reached dry land.” (Stillman 228) At this point Americans were more concerned with the floods that happened annually from the Mississippi River. In the early days, settlers built a mile long levee to block overflows from the mighty Mississippi while landowners constructed their own levees. “In 1879, Congress created the Mississippi River Commission” (Stillman 228) in which they hoped to train the river. Herein lay one of the earliest problems. Congress assigned the Army Corps of Engineers (the “Corps”) to head this newly created commission. The Corps believed they could control Mother Nature however as the video footage from The Lost City of New Orleans: A Case Study proved, “human kind cannot take on Mother Nature”. These engineers did not have the experience however they continued to increase the levees stating this would “confine the rivers for good”. However, “the more the levees constricted the Mississippi, the higher the waters rose”. (Stillman 228) As new plans and projects for the protecting New Orleans from Mississippi floodwaters were enacted, federal government financially backed all of them...
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...The Case For, or Against, New Orleans Cost-Benefit Assessment Too asses and give recommendation on whether or not to rebuild the city of new Orleans I will be examining the cost to benefits of such a rebuild and the impact and benefits it will have towards the city. In the CBA, I will be examining the cost of rebuilding New Orleans to pre Katrina conditions without making any additional upgrades to the levees and infrastructure. This will give me a more accurate cost model to base my recommendation on. As for the benefits I will examine the benefits of recovered losses when comparing pre Katrina data to post Katrina dat. The areas where I will be examining are tourism recovered, port operations recovered, wages recovered, spending recovered, and taxes recovered. The future value (FV) of these benefits will then be discounted to present value (PV) and compared to the cost of rebuilding to represent the net present value (NPV) of the expected amount to be gained or lost by carrying out the recovery. If the NPV is less than the cost, then rebuilding New Orleans will yield a loss and my recommendation will not favor a recovery. If the inverse is true, and the proposal will be in favor of the recovery. All calculations will based on post Katrina 2006 reports and data to give a more realistic prediction of the decision that could have been concluded given data directly after the catastrophe. Costs of Rebuilding These cost are compiled from the Department of...
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...“The Big Uneasy” by Harry Shearer is a documentary about the disastrous flooding of New Orleans during the Hurricane Katrina in a different viewpoint. While mass media describes the flood as well as the hurricane as a natural disaster, Shearer claims that the flooding was actually a man-made disaster, not a natural one; and the film contains comprehensive investigations with scientific data to support the claim. “The Big Uneasy” emphasize on the ineffective design and maintenance of the flood-protection system as well as the engineering structure of Mississippi River’s waterway in the city. Severe environmental damages due to poor infrastructural planning also ruin the natural flood barrier of the region. Furthermore, these problems are supported...
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...writing of this paper, I understand the possible consequences of the act’s, which could include expulsion from Indiana Wesleyan University. Crisis Communication Critique Paper Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans on August 25, 2005. It was a category 2 tropical typhoon that devastated vast parts of the city. The canals that were in New Orleans were not built to withstand the typhoon. This typhoon caused canal breaches and pumping-station failures. This caused a great deal of flooding of about 80 percent of the areas in New Orleans. Hurricane Katina caused a great deal of damage and displacement of many residents. There was a lot of blame placed on the engineers and the federally built flood protection system. That system was supposed to protect the residents from Hurricane Katrina. New Orleans was settled on a high ground along the Mississippi River. An extension was created near Lake Pontchartrain to help bring the level where it needed to be. Other areas were addressed in 1940 and in 1965 the United States Army Corps of Engineers built a levee system. This levee system was to cover a much larger geographic area. A study was done during the years of 1999-2001 and it was found that 51% of the terrestrial surface of the contiguous urbanized portions of Orleans, Jefferson and St. Bernard parishes...
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...In fact, they have spent more than 300 million on projects and repairs since 2007 (About). One project is to build an embedded or cutoff wall outside the dike’s wall that will retain seepage and extend the dike’s life (Fortner). However, Brown points out the same report Fortner cites also has concerns whether the project will work because the cutoff wall “is neither deep enough to halt all piping nor high enough to prevent overtopping” (20). The COE even admits the Herbert Hoover Dike is a failure risk, saying that without their continued efforts, the dike has a one in six chance of failing in any given year (qtd. in Herbert Hoover...
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...Case in Point Analysis Michelle Vasquez SOC/362 June 12, 2011 What happen in Louisiana, New Orleans long term and subsidence of the land had left a coastline without its natural buffers and city that was below the city sea level. Natural eco system services regulating water flow was replaced with machines levees and pumps that keep the water off the streets. This had lack of regard for natural ecosystems left the city of New Orleans, vulnerable to a catastrophic flooding during this Category 5 Hurricane Katrina. Hurricane Katrina had been listed one of the most horrible storms in history. The environmental consequence was devastating. New Orleans was vulnerable to wind and water, and over time a great deal has been done to help save this city from harm. Hurricanes Katrina storm course breached floodwalls and levees New Orleans, causing a widespread of damage along with the hampering rescue and improvement. The flooding caused by Hurricane Katrina was predicted, the degree of flooding was vague. Since much of the landscape of the city is underneath the sea level and lacking natural drainage precipitation frequently causes local flooding which is controlled by a system of canals and pumps (Cater 2005). New Orleans was faced with flooding threats from the Mississippi River, costal storms and severe precipitation. The levees as well as floodwalls around the city were intended to present a certain level of defense for such threat as Katrina. However the levees prevented...
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...Introduction On Monday, August 29th, Hurricane Katrina made landfall in New Orleans, Louisiana. This hurricane brought with it devastating winds and floods to the people of New Orleans. Following the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, several investigations we opened to identify what went wrong with the hurricane protection system, including questions into the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and the failure of the levees causing billions of dollars in damage in the greater New Orleans area, and more importantly, contributed to the displacement and loss of life to hundreds of New Orleans citizens. In order to better understand the cause and root issues of the levee failures in New Orleans, this paper takes a look at the accountability framework developed by Romzek and Dubnick in their assessment of the Challenger disaster. Moreover, this paper argues that out of the four accountability approaches (bureaucratic, political, professional and legal), the two accountability approaches that dominate the decisions and actions of the USACE include professional accountability, and predominantly, legal accountability....
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...Jason Coleman 06-11-12 New Orleans Recommendation Paper The Case For, or Against, New Orleans Management Decision Models B6025 Dr. Usha Dasari We will look at many factors in our case for rebuilding or not rebuilding New Orleans. This recommendation will be reviewed by state and local governments for their decision. We will perform a Cost-Benefit Analysis which will represent the residents of New Orleans, the residents of the surrounding floods plains, the Mayor of New Orleans, and the federal government represented by FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) and the taxpayers. We will look at scenario models, risk management, and decision trees to support our decisions and analysis. This natural disaster took an enormous toll on the residents of New Orleans. Over 1200 lives were lost and countless injuries were suffered. The loss of revenue from the shutdown of businesses, loss of homes and possessions of residents caused much pain and human suffering. We will conclude with an executive summary which will summarize our decision for or against rebuilding of New Orleans. Prior to the hurricane New Orleans was a tourism magnet. The city offered many restaurants, festivals, and great weather. These positives made tourism a thriving market. Other boons for the economy of New Orleans were the mining, transportation, and warehousing along its waterways. More products came through this port than any other port in the world. There are many colleges in the area than add...
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...HSM430—Planning and Marketing for Health Services Organizations | FINAL COURSE PAPER | New Orleans Public Hospital | 8/21/2011 | Final Course Paper HSM430 Planning and Marketing for Health Services Organizations My market analysis is that New Orleans needs a public hospital and needs one rather badly. It’s been since August 29, 2005, that this city has been without a “true operational” public hospital and that is one year too long. I will include demographics of the area and citizens, a marketing analysis and a sure marketing plan to get this project from a dream to a reality. As I have stated in the above paragraph, my demographic site will be the New Orleans Metropolitan Area. The parishes that will be covered are Orleans and Jefferson Parish. The cities involved will be New Orleans, Metairie and Kenner. In 2006, New Orleans had an estimate of 223,388 citizens. The figure for New Orleans is low based on the year before Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans and devastated the city. A great number of citizens left the city and the state. In 2010, Jefferson Parish had 432,552 citizens. The state of Louisiana in 2010 had 4,533,372 citizens. Of the citizens that live in Jefferson Paris , persons 65 years old and over was 13.7%. Females represented 51.9%, White persons 62.9%, black persons 26.3% American Indian and Alaska persons, 0.5%, Asian persons 3.9%, persons of Hispanic or Latino origin 12.4%. High school graduates over the age of 25 82...
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...even without food. My family along with many other families became displaced because of the severity of this storm. Several deaths, and an astronomical amount of property damage occurred. One of the most damaged areas was the city of New Orleans. Eighty percent of the city flooded due to breaches of the levee system; because of the tragedies of this storm, America became a “new” America (Raven, Berg, & Hassenzahl, 2010)! The Mississippi River formed as a result of sediments depositing at the mouth of the river. Since New Orleans was a profitable area for importing and exporting goods a system of canals and levees were built so that navigation would be easier and flooding would be less likely (Raven, Berg, & Hassenzahl, 2010). Starting during the late 1800s, levees began to be built by the United States Army Corps of Engineers (Handwerk, 2005). A levee is an artificial reinforced embankment built to prevent a river from flooding or overflowing into a lower lying area (The Free Dictionary by Farlex, 2011). As with everything, money played a significant role in determining how strong the support would be for these levees. Other factors included the strength of the storms before the 1800s. Over the last millennium, the city of New Orleans continues to grow structurally and population wise. Army Corps of Engineers scientifically figured out that without...
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...Christopher Roberts April 29, 2015 93174/Man 3583 Class Project The Disaster Relief Project of Post- Hurricane Katrina On August 29, 2005 the levees broke and started the flooding of the city with depths of more than 10 feet of water in some places. The category 4 storm had already taken its toll on the city. The head of DHS Michael Chertoff waited a total of 24 hours after receiving knowledge that the levees were breached to make the designation that hurricane Katrina was a "incident of national significance--requiring an extensive and well-coordinated response by federal, state, local tribal and nongovernmental authorities to save lives, minimize damage and provide the basis for long-term community and economic recovery." What followed this statement was a project management failure of catastrophic measures. I believe there are 4 major project management failures that could have been handled differently by local, state, and FEMA- communication, planning, leadership, and execution. FEMA, Local, and State officials failed to plan for events like this, they failed to communicate with each other during/after the event, they failed to show leadership, and they failed to execute any of the plans presented in a timely manner (one of which was to provide the trapped residents of the city basic needs of food and water). Given that New Orleans is essentially a bowl by being that about half of the city and surrounding areas are above sea level and the other half is up to 6 feet...
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...Concept Paper: New Orleans Post-Katrina December 8, 2013 New Orleans post-Hurricane Katrina Hurricane Katrina, which hit the southeast United States in late August of 2005 was one of the costliest and deadliest hurricanes in United States history. The city of New Orleans was arguably hit the hardest by the hurricane. The objective of this paper is to analyze the link between economic, political, and social conditions in New Orleans prior to Hurricane Katrina and the conditions in New Orleans post-Katrina. Although natural disasters are an inevitability, the human suffering that citizens faced in New Orleans immediately following Katrina were largely avoidable, the result of a lack of adequate evacuation planning and massive governmental negligence. Furthermore, it was no accident which people suffered the most in the aftermath of Katrina. Financial, political, racial, and social disparities in New Orleans long before Katrina dictated who would be most affected after Katrina, both immediately and years after the hurricane. Rebuilding efforts, just like the evacuation, have tended to favor the rich and White and neglect the poor and Black. Pre-Katrina New Orleans was disproportionately Black and poor relative to the rest of the United States. According to 2000 U.S. Census data, Blacks made up 12.3% of the nation’s population while Whites made up 75.1% of the nation’s population (U.S. Census, 2000b). In contrast, the city of New Orleans was 28.1% White and 67.3% Black...
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...as such, is challenging. It is understandable, however, how that type of thinking played out during the storm and its aftermath; how the actions of those in authority in the spur of the moment affected the overall outcome of the disaster because of the sheer enormity of it all. Clearly, had they had the luxury of time to think by “skillfully analyzing, assessing, and reconstructing” (Our Concept), it is possible the outcome may have been different. Certainly, hindsight is 20/20 which affords a much easier avenue to review what happened in Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina hit and time to apply concepts of critical thinking to form thoughts on what could have been done differently to lessen its damage, especially to the city of New Orleans and its inhabitants....
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...The land of Louisiana has been created over thousands of years. Through the Mississippi River, sediment has made its way down to the gulf to build up and create the land we stand upon today. However, when more people settled, they had to find a way to stop the spring floods of the river. For over 280 years, the New Orleanians struggled with this issue. When the river was swollen, the fear of the town being submerged was ubiquitous. The Mississippi river changes course because of a distributary that has a shorter route to the gulf. Sometimes, the meanders in the river become very looped turns due to the land getting eroded between the turn. Soon enough, the turn is cut off and becomes what is called an oxbow lake. In 10,000 years, the Mississippi...
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