How To Prevent Hurricane Katrina

It was around 5 pm on a Tuesday evening when the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Florida, issued a warning to its citizens that a tropical storm would soon become a hurricane. Being only 350 miles from the populated city, Floridians didn’t have much to fear. At age four, I was one of them. But we and the residents of New Orleans, Louisiana and Mississippi didn’t know just how wrong we would be. Hurricane Katrina was the third deadliest hurricane in the United States history, claiming over a total of up to 2,000 lives. Not only did it claim lives, but it claimed minds, skyrocketing the amount of PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder), anxiety disorders, depression and frequency of heart attacks in the areas affected by the hurricane.
Katrina wreaked havoc on the earth, costing over $1 billion to only repair bridges. The hurricane scattered debris throughout the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico. The forceful winds uprooted the oldest of trees, sending them crashing into electricity lines, leaving the majority of those in the area without a sufficient use of electricity.
It flooded homes in the Miami-Dade and Broward County, while leaving over 1 million people without power. It ended up costing South Florida about $63 million to repair damages done to electricity units and flooding. Some still remain homeless from the fury of Katrina. Though there was a significant amount of earthly damage to Florida, the number of deaths did not even relatively compare to Louisiana’s