First Reaction Paper: Hurricane Katrina It was the storm that everyone saw coming but no one did a thing to stop it‚ Katrina. Hurricane Katrina was one of the most devastating hurricanes to strike the United States. The category 5 storm struck a wide swath of destruction in Florida‚ Mississippi and Louisiana. Katrina is estimated to have caused close to $81 billion in damages (NHC‚ 2005). A category 5 storm has wind-speeds greater than 155 mph and typical storm water surges are greater than
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were caused by the unrighteous activity of the city’s residents. In 2005‚ evangelical leader Pat Robertson raised the possibility that the disaster of Hurricane Katrina was a direct result of the fact that ‘we have killed over 40 million unborn babies in America’. One year later‚ African American humanist Anthony Pin wrote that the aftermath of Katrina was a moral indictment of the oppressive structures inherent in U.S. society. Though separated by time and ideology‚ these three claims share the assumption
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Hurricane Katrina On Saturday August‚ 27th 2005 President Bush was notified about the news on Hurricane Katrina while on vacation at his ranch in Crawford‚ Texas‚ and after hearing the news remained on his vacation and took no action to help aid the people of New Orleans (Dyson 63-64). When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans it was at a Category 5 hurricane. Many unnecessary lives were lost in the hurricane and in the events after the disaster hit. What was the reason for the extreme amount of
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that I think everything was done the way it should have been done. All the nurses and physicians did what they could to keep the hospital running as smoothly as they possibly could. The hospital went through a devastating natural disaster of Hurricane Katrina. It was so devastating that it was hard to believe it really happened. No one could stop it only mother nature. It happened and it was real. Memorial hospital became like an island of only the hospital as the flood waters rose around it(Anna
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Hurricane Katrina made landfall in the Gulf Coast on August 29‚ but first touched down in Florida a few days earlier. In Florida the storm was only a Category 1 and caused minimal damage to people and the environment. However‚ the well documented damage caused in Alabama‚ Mississippi‚ and Louisiana was one of the greatest natural disasters to ever strike the United States. While much of the Gulf Coast was adversely affected by the hurricane‚ the majority of damage to human life and the environment
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Hurricane Katrina: Development and Devastation Hurricane Katrina was one of the strongest storm systems to ever collide with the coastal United States in the last century. Strong winds sustained during landfall of over 140 mph combined with a very low central pressure (920 mb) to wreak havoc on many coastal communities in ways not seen before in the US (1). Despite monitoring the storms development‚ tracking its movement‚ and issuing early warnings‚ Hurricane Katrina has proved to be the most
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August 29‚ 2005‚ a hurricane hit land in Louisiana. The next 6 days would be billions of dollars in damages to one of the worst hurricanes in history‚ Hurricane Katrina. Hurricanes are one of most powerful disasters created by nature. Hurricanes have been recorded of hitting the Gulf Coast since settlers came to the coast. These forces of nature have caused large amounts of destruction and loss of people due to the power each hurricane has. Hurricanes are remarkably powerful events that can demolish
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perfect‚ beautiful day but this was the day that the world witnessed a catastrophie that would have lasting effects on our economy. People sat glued to their television screens as Hurricane Katrina ripped through three states taking with it the homes and lives of millions of people. In the aftermath of this powerful hurricane‚ the people of the United States realized how valuable their families‚ lives‚ and the economy was to them. Something that we took for granted everyday. As the days wore on after
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though Hurricane Sandy was challenging to forecast‚ lack of proper and useful information confused the public along with a false sense of confidence‚ eventually leaving 70% of the population behind after evacuation orders. The National Hurricane Center could not label the storm a hurricane and because of NOAA rules‚ they could not even set out warnings for it. Between the absence of hurricane warnings‚ late evacuation orders‚ and citizen’s previous experience one year earlier with Hurricane Irene
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worst-case scenarios. Hurricane Katrina first focuses the spotlight on the vulnerability of healthcare’s emergency preparedness when it hit New Orleans in 2001. The principles of emergency management that resulted from Katrina have not changed much since then‚ says Joseph L. Cappiello‚ chairman of Cappiello & Associates in The Villages‚ Florida. As an official at the Joint Commission‚ Capiello helped develop the accreditors expanded emergency management standards following Katrina. The same strategies
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