Evacuation was as common as eating crawfish in New Orleans. Yet‚ Hurricane Katrina was like a whale stuffed into a stockpot. August 2005 Katrina blew through Louisiana. I was thousands of miles away from my home with a feeling as empty as a Stockpot. I didn’t understand why it was happening to us. The new broadcaster that morning‚ spoke of Katrina as a tropical storm‚ but my mother had an unsettling feeling about this one. She insisted we pack with hast so we could evacuate early. See‚ we always
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the Mayor’s responsibilities prior to the hurricane? Stock the shelters with food and water. mobilize cities and school buses for evacuation. Where were state and local officials during the aftermath of Katrina? 80 miles away at the state capital during the aftermath of Katrina. This was a problem because they did not know about the extent of the damage and were unable to help. What were the critics pointing out as trouble with the governor of Louisiana? They said the governor of
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associated press reports that more than 13‚500 flights were canceled and in New York three major airports were shut down. Super storm Sandy the second most expensive storm in U.S. history‚ according to Eqecat. That ranks it right behind Hurricane Katrina. Eqecat stated that the damage from the storm would likely be far worse than it previously predicted. The storm also brought a huge economic loss by flooding the New York City Subway system. Seven tunnels beneath the East River were flooded. Depending
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told; the media have the ultimate control but how far does this extend? In the cases and media coverage of Hurricane Katrina‚ Abu Ghraib and Weapons of Mass Destruction this notion varies greatly. Hurricane Katrina Hurricane Katrina stands in history as the costliest natural disaster in modern America as well as one of the five deadliest hurricanes in the United States. Hurricane Katrina formed over the Bahamas on the 25th August 2005 before moving over southern Florida to the Gulf of Mexico and Louisiana
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To what extent are the impacts of Tropical Revolving storms determined by human factors rather than physical factors? (40marks) A tropical revolving storm is a huge and extremely violent tropical storm which can be up to 500km in diameter. The Coriolis force is the driving force behind the spinning of these storms creating a lot of the storms power. These TRS are either known as hurricanes in the North Atlantic Region or Typhoons in the South East Asia region. However to become a TRS they have to
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The advancement of technology and the progress of man makes humans feel as though we are invincible‚ but when a natural disaster strikes we are reminded that Mother Nature still cannot be tamed and can strike at any time without warning. We have seen this in the past weeks with hurricane Harvey flooding Houston and displacing people who never in their life thought that their houses and neighborhoods might be underwater one day and left with nothing. Similar to current events‚ this image shows New
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the strength it gained since faced with similar scenes of devastation seven-years-ago in New Orleans. “Our investigation revealed that Katrina was a national failure‚ an abdication of the most solemn obligation to provide for the common welfare. At every level—individual‚ corporate‚ philanthropic‚ and governmental—we failed to meet the challenge that was Katrina. In this cautionary tale‚ all the little pigs built houses of straw‚” read the report released by the House of Representatives‚ A Failure
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The two essays I chose for my final portfolio were Maira Kalman’s “Back to the Land” interpretive essay and Josh Neufled “A.D. New Orleans After the Deluge” interpretive essay. I found it quite easy when it came to deciding which two interpretive essays I would have to choose for evaluation because I was able to analyze both the purpose and audience clearly in the two essays. Also‚ with both Kalman and Neufeld’s essays I received positive responses‚ and felt that I could confidently write about both
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Lunch was over and students were filing into the classroom. As soon as we got inside the atmosphere felt really uncomfortable. I looked to the second row of desks and saw Katrina‚ a long-time friend‚ digging through her desk‚ Mrs. Nakigawa‚ our homeroom teacher‚ looking over her shoulder with concern. “…but‚ it was here before P.E hour‚ I know it was. My mom reminded me to take it off before I left this morning!” It had been a minute or so since everyone had realized something was genuinely wrong
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BEACH RESORT DISASTERS‚ AN ECONOMIC HAZARD Many areas alongside the coastline of the USA are very prone to large scale and highly destructive natural disasters‚ such is the case of Dauphin Islands‚ Ala.‚ whereon severe storms and massive hurricanes can decimate whole towns. Often such regions are inhabited by well-off communities who simply choose to live in a beach resort knowing so well about the risk and its magnitude. Such communities then rely on the fact that the federal government put
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