The Role Of Hurricane Katrina In Gulf Mexico

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On Friday, August 26, 2005 Hurricane Katrina made landfall in the Gulf Mexico. Through the hours, Hurricane Katrina approached the west of New Orleans region. Hurricane Katrina was category 5 storm and this storm was 155 miles per hours. Most tragically, more than 1,100 people in the New Orleans area lost their lives by May 2006 the total had surpassed 1,500 for the Gulf Coast as a whole” (Johnson, M. L, 2006, p.143). Furthermore, New Orleans authorities and Federal government made a plan to evacuate all the people of this state. However, by Saturday 27, August, New Orleans implementing its evacuation plans. All interstate-highway lanes were converted to outbound only to help the hundreds of thousands of motorists who were fleeing the metropolitan

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