nothing. Unfortunately‚ the 484‚000 people who lived in New Orleans had to experience those unimaginable thoughts first hand in 2005 due to Hurricane Katrina. “An entire city was nearly wiped off the face of the earth” (Kellogg) and at least 1‚833 people were killed during and after the storm. There are many theories and conspiracies of what happened with the levees and what could have been done better in order to help the residents of New Orleans. Director Spike Lee felt very strongly about the issue
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New Orleans‚ Louisiana La Nouvelle-Orléans (New Orleans) was founded May 7‚ 1718‚ by the French Mississippi Company‚ under the direction of Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville‚ on land inhabited by the Chitimacha. It was named for Philippe d’Orléans‚ Duke of Orléans‚ who was Regent of France at the time. His title came from the French city of Orléans. The French colony was ceded to the Spanish Empire in the Treaty of Paris (1763). During the American Revolutionary War‚ New Orleans was an
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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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efforts were executed by Coast Guard‚ FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force (FEMA US&R)‚ the Department of Defense‚ and other Federal agencies. The Coast Guard managed to rescue and evacuate over 33‚000 people. This earned them the name the “New Orleans Saints”. FEMA US&R teams also saved 6‚500 lives (Chapter Four: A week of Crisis). Furthermore‚ FEMA was one of the first organizations to provide housing assistance to over 700‚000 citizens after the hurricane. They also paid the hotel costs for families
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