Louisiana Superdome Essays

The book that I have chosen to read is, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. In this book, it is about a single parent, Atticus (Atticus Finch) with two children. Jem (Jeremy Atticus Finch) and Scout (Jean Louise Finch). The protagonist is Scout. The story covers a span of three years, during which the main characters undergo significant changes. Not quite midway through the story, Scout and her brother Jem discover that their father is going to represent a black man by the name of Tom Robinson.

homes throughout Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. Consequently the U.S. economy was greatly impacted from the desolation that Hurricane Katrina inflicted. Katrina stretched over 400 miles across with wind speeds up to 100-140 mph; more than 2,000 lives were lost and over 90,000 square miles of the U.S. were affected. After the storm thousands were left stranded in attics and on roofs for days until rescue missions arrived. Desperation was most concentrated in New Orleans, Louisiana where the Coast

right over the bahamas at a category 5 giving time to warn the people on the gulf coast states. Over the warm water of the gulf of mexico it made the hurricane a category 5 but weakened before making its second landfall as category 3 on august 29 in Louisiana. New orleans was already at risk by being above sea level, before the storm, officials worried they sure would overtop some levels and cause short-term flooding, but no one predicted levees would collapse below design height. The day before the hurricane

It is indisputable that the death and destruction that occurred following Hurricane Katrina was caused by the negligence of the federal government to provide critical aid following the storm. A lack of coordination and cooperation between the Louisiana state government and federal agencies allowed for the unnecessary devastation and loss of life the city of New Orleans has endured. Prior to the hurricane, New Orleans was a rapidly evolving city that was home to individuals of varying races, ethnicities

The relief efforts tried to save as many people as they could. Yet, most of the emergency planning failing. The people that were rescued were mostly put in the Superdome for safety. The destruction that was made was terrible. People had to tear apart house since the water destroyed to inside. Most debris that was floating in the water when the storm was passing, ended up clogging up the storm drains. The clogged

A CASE STUDY ON HURRICANE KATRINA by Sushant Bhatt. Id- 170624. Table of contents Overview The tropical depression that became Hurricane Katrina formed over the Bahamas on August 23, 2005, and meteorologists were soon able to warn people in the Gulf Coast states that a major storm was on its way. By August 28, evacuations were underway across the region. That day, the National Weather Service predicted that after the storm hit, “most of the Gulf Coast area will be uninhabitable

more than any other city in the United States. New Orleans has a diversity of architectural styles and types of buildings. New Orleans was founded by the French, ruled for 40 years by the Spanish and then bought by the United States in the 1803 Louisiana Purchase. The French and the Spanish greatly influenced the Architecture in New Orleans. Both cultures were influenced by Greek and Roman architecture. This is why New Orleans has a lot of Greek and Roman architecture throughout. The New Orleans

tore through New Orleans, it did not turn the region into a Third World country…it revealed one” (Glover). As the winds reached speeds of 100 to 140 miles per hour, water crashed against the levees, which in turn broke them, and flooded 80% of Louisiana. Hurricane Katrina’s peak was a category five, but disintegrated into a category three just before landfall. The third deadliest hurricane is what Hurricane Katrina achieved. In the wake of a dark time, Hurricane Katrina proved to America how crucial

The wind speed of Hurricane Katrina was about 175 mph, but went back down to a category 3 when it hit New Orleans. They had Satellites to help track the storm’s movements to tell when it was going to hit New Orleans. Kathleen Blanco, who was the Louisiana Governor at the time of Hurricane Katrina, held a press conference on August 27th with other officials to encourage people to evacuate the area. Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans two days after the conference which was on August 29th

Phillip Introduction One of the deadliest hurricanes hit the city of New Orleans, Louisiana on August 29, 2005. Hurricane Katrina did a lot of damage, but its aftermath was catastrophic. Levee breaches led to eighty percent of the city to be flooded causing more than 2,000 deaths and over 100 billion dollars in damages (History.com staff, 2009). The flooding also stranded 20,000 residents in the Louisiana Superdome and thousands more on rooftops for days. Displaced residents were desperate for

strikes and who to put in the front line during the storm. The federal at this point were pulling commodities and organized search & rescue teams for before and after Katrina. During the storm Local citizens, 10,000 to be exact had to shelter in the Superdome while Katrina hit, other civilians decided to stay at their homes and just move to higher ground, the rescuers/police start to search for survivors of the city.

On August 29, 2005, a storm that destroyed the lives of countless innocent people, left families in full desolation, and changed the lives of millions within a few hours, hit the Gulf Coast. The storm, which is also known as Hurricane Katrina, lasted eight days from August 23, 2005 to August 31, 2005 with its highest wind speed at 175 mph. It is known to be one of the largest, deadliest, and costliest storms ever to hit the United States. The storm destroyed about $108 billion worth of damages and

Hurricane Katrina was a Category 5 Hurricane which is estimated to have killed over a thousand people. Although Hurricane Katrina caused destruction on many coasts of the US, however, nothing matches the destruction that happened in New Orleans, Louisiana. What makes this issue more devastating and at the same time interesting is that in the case of New Orleans, it was not only nature that caused all the destruction, man played an important role as well, and that’s when the Levee in New Orleans broke

the worse natural disaster every recorded, leaving over a thousand people dead in New Orleans, Louisiana. Hurricane Katrina landed in New Orleans, Louisiana around 6:45 am on August 23 as a Category 3, 2005 and end as a Category 5 hurricane on August 31, 2005. After this horrendous hurricane took New Orleans it made its way through Mississippi, Florida and even up into other states north of Louisiana taking 1,245 lives with it including one from Kentucky and two from Ohio, Florida, and Georgia.

August 23 - 31, 2005, Katrina made her appearance in New Orleans, Louisiana. The rescue efforts of Katrina were almost immediate. Shelters, food, and transportation were all provided. “As of today, 563 shelters have been opened” (“Hurricane Katrina Response and Recovery”). Shelters for the people affected by the storm was

disaster. The role of the first responders during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina was supposed to be directing, protecting, treating, and securing those affected by the storm. Instead, victims were forced to live in crowded conditions inside of the Superdome, while awaiting the help of the first responders. The first responders failed to deliver their services in a timely manner. Health needs of children and elderly were

become a Category 5 Hurricane. As Katrina traveled to Louisiana and made landfall, it weakened again. It was on August 29, that Hurricane Katrina reared its head and landed in Louisiana as a Category 3 Hurricane, causing one of the most destructive and deadly disasters in the history of the United States. (Blake, Eric; Landsea, Christorpher W; Gibney, Ethan J; National Hurricane

States in 2005, it was terribly devastating, “the damage severely frustrated the people of Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida and Alabama” (Hurricane), and everything that happened afterward impacted the people living there and elsewhere in either positive or negative ways. To know more about Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, the background of Katrina and

Environmental Paper Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005. Katrina was a Category 3 rating on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale–bringing sustained winds of 100–140 miles per hour–and stretched as far as 400 miles. Many people in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama were left without homes. Meteorologists were able to give warning the day before Katrina hit, and the evacuation process for the high risk locations were put in place. (www.history.com) New Orleans was one of the most

What would you do if your entire life, friends, family, home, and city was rendered uninhabitable in a 24 hour period? Picture a city completely flooded, roads and highways engulfed with water, people, stranded on the roofs of their flooded homes, 100 year old 50 foot trees uprooted from the ground, abandoned pets, floating cars, buses on top of buildings, this was the horrific scene after Hurricane Katrina hit the gulf coast of the United States on August 29th, 2005. This is not only the scene