Citizens in Louisiana and New Orleans suffered the most from this disaster because the levees were designed for Category 3 Hurricanes while Hurricane Katrina was much stronger. Not only the levee system failed in this disaster‚ but also the US government failed the people of Louisiana and New Orleans because they were gambling with the citizens’ lives‚ and they didn’t treat all the states equally. First of all‚ the US government gambled with the lives of Louisiana and New Orleans citizens. Scientific
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religion?”(Eggers 37). Dave Egger states in his novel Zeitoun. Zeitoun is a nonfiction book written by Dave Eggers about the main character named Abdulrahman Zeitoun and his Muslim family that lives in New Orleans. During this time‚ Hurricane Katrina is about to run its course through New Orleans. Zeitoun decides to ride the hurricane out and tell his family to leave without him. Throughout the rest of the book‚ the Zeitouns will face many struggles that they may or may not be able to overcome. Although
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Louisiana on the morning of August 29‚ 2005. The storm produced sustained winds of up 125 mph when it hit that morning. On that same day Katrina caused 53 different levee breaches in greater New Orleans‚ spilling the waters of Lake Pontchartrain into the city and flooding an overwhelming majority of New Orleans. The floodwaters destroyed countless homes and lives along the way. Some estimates of the cost of Katrina were up in the 200 billions but according to Kimberly Amadeo‚ “The actual cost of Hurricane
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New Orleans Levee Improvement after Hurricane Katrina ------------------------------------------------- Course Project Elizabeth Sarmento Project Risk Management May 28‚ 2013 Table of Contents Table of Contents 2 New Orleans: A Perilous Future 3 Fault Tree One 6 Figure 1.1 6 Fault Tree Two 8 Figure 1.2 8 Conclusion 8 A bibliography 9 Introduction New Orleans: A Perilous Future The levees and floodwalls protecting New Orleans from hurricane’s and floods were designed
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popular place to relocate to. Many in Europe in addition to those living in more northerly areas of the United States had no desire to come to an area on the map known for its swamp creatures and diseases that killed off thousands each summer in New Orleans and other larger cities within the Louisiana Territory. Colonialism that was established by the European nations had very little luck in their efforts to push people towards settlement within Louisiana. Louisiana’s population did not grow through
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"Hurricane Katrina: A Natural and Political Disaster" Four days after Hurricane Katrina devastated much of the northern Gulf Coast‚ tired and angry people stranded at the convention center in New Orleans welcomed a supply convoy carrying food‚ water and medicine with cheers and tears of joy. Hurricane Katrina was the costliest and one of the deadliest hurricanes in the history of the United States. It was the sixth-strongest Atlantic hurricane ever recorded and the third-strongest land-falling
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Louisiana and another 238 in Mississippi for a total of 1‚836 deaths. Hurricane Karina reached up to a Category 5 hurricane‚ hurricane levees set up in New Orleans were only made for a Category 3. At one point up to 80% of New Orleans was 20ft underwater‚ this alone impacted almost 90‚000 square miles. Total damages from this storm to New Orleans was around $81billion but was estimated for both Louisiana and Mississippi exceeded $150 billion dollars. Around 70 countries had pledged monetary donations
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Hurricane Katrina Have you heard of a Hurricane? They are a type of three tropical storms. The word hurricane is from the Mayan storm god Hurakan was famous for helping create humanity and for being like wind and storms. Hurricanes like Katrina‚ Andrew‚ Sandy‚ and Inged and lots of others. Could be able to reach a diameter of 100 km-1500 km ‚and would be whirling around so I would stay a satisfactory distance away. Also it could have a chance to reach a rotation speed of 350km/hour isn’t that
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Medicine‚ Department of Internal Medicine (Block‚ DeSalvo)‚ New Orleans‚ Louisiana‚ USA o Address correspondence to: Karen DeSalvo‚ MD‚ MPH‚ MSc‚ Department of Internal Medicine‚ Tulane University School of Medicine‚ 1430 Tulane Avenue‚ SL 16‚ New Orleans LA 70112 ‚ • Richard A. Scribner‚ MD‚ MPH Affiliations o Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center‚ Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine (Scribner)‚ New Orleans‚ Louisiana‚ USA ‚ • Karen B. DeSalvo‚ MD‚ MPH‚ MSc Affiliations
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