plan. o The U.S. military? The U.S. military had waited too long. o FEMA? FEMA was poorly led. o The Government? The government was indifferent to victims who were mostly poor and black. 2. Why was the Louisiana National Guard unable to help? At the headquarters of the Louisiana National Guard‚ located in the lower 9th ward‚ the soldiers were not yet aware that the canal levees were giving way. The Guard’s commander was monitoring the situation from Baton Rouge. He was given misleading
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such a large number of people-lacked assets and lacked communications The Government? Not enough government support for the state and Bush really ignored the state for the first week of the storm. 2. Why was the Louisiana National Guard unable to help? The Louisiana National guard were unable
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storm and eventually a hurricane as it moved west and neared the Florida coast on the evening of 25 August. After crossing southern Florida - where it left some 100‚000 homes without power - it strengthened further before veering inland towards Louisiana‚ eventually making landfall at Grand Isle‚ approximately 90km south of New Orleans. This is a map showing the path of the hurricane going through Florida then heading straight for New Orleans. This diagram shows that when there is green dots the
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Category 5. Although it caused much destruction along the Gulf Coast from Florida to Texas‚ the majority of the damage was done to Southeast Louisiana. By the time the hurricane made its landfall in Louisiana‚ the storm had calmed to a Category 3 (“Hurricane Katrina”‚ 2012). However‚ due to inadequate design of the levees and floodwalls protecting Louisiana‚ the hurricane caused over fifty failures in the levees. Tens of billions of gallons of water emerged from these breaches‚ flooding eighty percent
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Demas‚ L.L. Robbins and D.L. Lavoie. Science and the Storms: the USGS Response to the Hurricanes of 2005. U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1306‚ 283. Eds. 2007. Print. Gagliano‚ Sherwood M. Effects of Geological Faults of Levee Failures in South Louisiana. Washington D.C. U.S. Senate Committee of Environment & Public Works. 2005. Print. McGarity‚ Thomas O. and Kysar‚ Douglas A.‚ Did NEPA Drown New Orleans? The Levees‚ The Blame Game‚ and the Hazards of Hindsight (2006). Cornell Law Faculty Publications
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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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Brown v. Louisiana During the 1960’s‚ many African-Americans believed that civil rights should become a national priority. Young civil rights activists brought their cause to the national stage and demanded the federal government assist them and help resolve the issues that plagued them. Many of them challenged segregation in the South by protesting at stores and schools that practiced segregation. Despite the efforts of these groups and Supreme Court rulings that ordered the desegregation
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If I am not as close to my higher power (God) as I used to be‚ who moved? Life has its ways of being so unbearable at times; that it can cause a person to feel like the entire world is against them. One tragic situation after another can definitely bring someone to his or her breaking point. Numerous times‚ I have felt like my back was against the wall and all my problems were caving in on me‚ but at this one specific point in my life‚ I felt I had reached my breaking point. Devastating situations
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he had died around 1823 trying to capture Spanish vessels. Information about his life and death continues among historians. The place of his death is unknown but here are some possible places he could have died Yucatán‚ gulf of Mexico‚ Texas‚ Louisiana‚ south Carolina‚ Illinois‚ Leon‚ Nicaragua‚ sao Miguel island‚ and Azores. He was a captain. Battles and wars he was in the battle of new Orleans. Around 1820‚ Lafitte reportedly married Madeline regaud‚ who was possibly the widow of a French
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I have lived in Mandeville‚ Louisiana – a waterfront city north of New Orleans – my whole life. Mandeville and New Orleans rest on opposing sides of Lake Pontchartrain‚ a brackish body of water known for its brown-grey hues and occasional corpse. Bisecting the lake is a 24 mile long bridge that once held the Guinness World Record for the longest bridge over water‚ dubbed the Causeway‚ which provides a 40-minute drive from one city to the other. Mandevillians will tell you they are from New Orleans
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