responsible to care for these individual in the wake of this catastrophe. Although a considerable amount of the blame has been placed at the feet of FEMA, it should be understood that multiple factors contributed to the situation in New Orleans. Some sections of the levees had been poorly constructed, and were not properly maintained. Local agencies failed to adequately plan and prepare of such an event. Local officials waited too long to order an evacuation, and did not consider how to assist those
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especially an insufficient preparation and bad management. These factors might make the damage more serious. Many factors characterised Katrina as an example of a new type of complex disaster. Such a complex disaster was estimated before Katrina, and it had been named as “the New Orleans scenario”. Before Katrina, FEMA evaluated the New Orleans scenario as one of the most serious potential natural disasters. The first observation of Katrina
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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
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Okeechobee’s Herbert Hoover Dike: An Accident Waiting to Happen Imagine people sitting in their homes, hearing a thunderous rushing sound, and feeling the floor beneath their feet lifted from foundations. Or watching as flood waters force themselves inside as the residents cling to roofs? In 1926, and again in 1928, these scenarios happened all around Lake Okeechobee. Several thousand people died (Pfost). If the current dike around Lake Okeechobee is not extensively repaired or replaced, the area
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stretched for about 400 miles. Experts estimate that $100 billion in damages was caused by Katrina. New Orleans was at particular risk since the city is approximately six feet below sea level. The Army Corps of Engineers had built a system of levees and seawalls to prevent flooding but was lacking in maintainence, leading to levees in the city’s east and west to be less reliable. On August 28th 2005, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin issued the city’s first ever mandatory evacuation order and declared the Superdome
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New Orleans New Orleans (viết tắt NOLA; dân ở đấy dịch là Ngọc Lân; cũng được đọc như "Níu Liên") là thành phố lớn nhất trong tiểu bang Louisiana, Hoa Kỳ. Thành phố này nằm thuộc miền đông nam Louisiana, giữa bờ sông Mississippi và hồ Pontchartrain, khoảng 100 dặm ngược dòng sông từ vịnh Mexico ở 30,07° vĩ độ bắc, 89,93° kinh độ tây. Về mặt luật pháp và hành chính thì thành phố New Orleans với Quận Orleans là một. Thành phố này được đặt tên theo Philippe II, Công tước Orléans, công tước nhiếp chính
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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
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landfall around New Orleans. With a storm as powerful as Katrina was, Mayor C. Ray Nagin and Governor Kathleen Blanco, would have been well served to physically enforce evacuation of the city. As Katrina approached it was a category five storm, much more powerful than the levee system, implemented by the Army Corps of Engineers to protect the city, was designed to protect against. Even though as it finally did strike it was downgraded to category three, the category the levees were rated for,
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day it made it to land there were still thousands of people trying to escape, roads were jammed all through New Orleans and parts of Florida. Some of the people just gave up trying and others did not want to leave there home. There was no signals because the force of the winds and water together destroyed all of the towers so you could not get in contact with anyone, this caused New Orleans to be dead to the United States. While Katrina was going on you could not get any outside resources unless you
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is how the process of said movement occurred using the behaviors of both supply firms and consumers. In the late summer of 2005, Hurricane Katrina bared down on the City of New Orleans and the surrounding areas. This storm caused a surge that caused the storm levees to break that in turn, flooded the City of New Orleans and took most of the city’s housing with it. Because of the destruction, about two hundred and fifty thousand people were relocated to nearby Baton Rouge, making it the largest
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