Government Interventions After Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Katrina happened fours after the 9/11 attacks and three years after the creation of the Department of Homeland Security. Despite the increased attention to homeland security, the response to Hurricane Katrina was still a failure. The poor response came from a failure to manage several risk factors. It was stated that it was long considered that the risks of a hurricane hitting New Orleans and there was a warning of the hurricane so declarations, announcements, etc. were made days in advance. However, responders failed to change this data into a level of preparation that would be appropriate with the capacity of the approaching hurricane.

This case summarizes events preceding the Hurricane Katrina, which was one of the worst natural catastrophes in the modern history of the USA. It raises questions about the lack of reasonable prevention and preparation actions due to flimsy structure and management of the responsible organizations and persons, invalidity and inconsistence of their actions and incapability of making the decisions in a timely manner. As a result of the unstructured and incoherent activities, we could observe several ineffective and costly attempts to mitigate floods and hurricanes. In the beginning the local officials, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and “White Houses past and present always seem penny-wise and pound-foolish” because of the chain of the wrong

Hurricane Katrina not only provided new response for natural disasters but also for terrorist response and mitigation. Hurricane Katrina helped the Department of Homeland Security to see the vulnerability of the nation and how bad a single storm could affect the communities. After Hurricane Katrina DHS started to plan and “imagine” the possibilities of future disasters both natural and manmade as if they were actually going to happen. After 9/11 FEMA was downsized and DHS replaced most of its disaster and planning operations. This became clear after seeing the poor response FEMA had with Hurricane Katrina and the thousands of people left stranded without help. The aftermath of Katrina showed how much we needed both counterterrorism along with

If your neighborhood was flooded, how fast would you want the government to respond? Hours? Days? Weeks? Well, for victims of Hurricane Katrina it was months. But why? One of the purposes of the government is to serve the people. There was different government groups at the sites of the aftermath of Katrina, but many of them didn’t even bother to help the victims in need like the military, police, and national guard. In the book “ Zeitoun” written by Dave Eggers we see that a victim of the hurricane had more of an authentic human response than the government did. Before the hurricane hit there was a mandatory evacuation, but many people stayed behind for different reasons. The aftermath of Katrina led to even bigger issues than need be because

There has been a great development in the way the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) responds to natural disasters. Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Sandy, and wildfires in California are three major disasters that required a large FEMA response and recovery effort. These three natural disasters stressed the resources and abilities FEMA has in their arsenal. As any good organization does, FEMA learned from their experiences and mistakes in order to handle the next challenge they have to face accordingly. Hurricane Katrina affected over 15 million people, caused $81 billion in property damages, and 90,000 square miles (11 Facts About Hurricane Katrina). There was much controversy over the response of the Federal Emergency Management Agency

Hurricane Katrina was one of the biggest catastrophe the struck the state of New Orleans. Fema did not do the best jobs in distribution resources

Whatever aid was used went towards temporary housing, food, and social services. It’s a shame that because of the American government being way too bureaucratic or proud to accept aid from any country that offered. A lot of supplies were either unused or denied outright due to red tape or bureaucratic limits on how aid can be spent. Needless to say that the government’s response as a whole to the Hurricane Katrina left a lot to be desired and brought about changes to how the Federal Government reacts to natural disasters.

Hurricane Katrina not only tore the city apart and forever changed the lives of the people living in New Orleans, but truly hit home for the rest of America as well. Nothing of this brutal disaster had really hit the nation before August 23th, 2005, so the shock of it all struck the nation at an all time high. The after math of Katrina was catastrophic on the worst levels. Families were torn apart, homes and vehicles swept away or completely ruined by the massive amounts of water, and all that was planned to save lives was partly ironically what drown them. In a situation like this one would expect a hospital to be sophisticated and more equipped to keep it together, but it ultimately the opposite happened entirely. When the lives lost were

Hurricane Katrina was one of the most popular disaster’s that devastated the area in which it affected. Many lives were lost in the storm itself and in the after math. Said to blame by many is FEMA and the U.S government. The two were blamed for their lack of response time, pure carelessness, and the inability to properly communicate.

On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Louisiana as a category 4 hurricane, bringing with it a storm surge that was as high as 29.5 feet in some areas, overwhelming the levees and drainage in New Orleans, which led to the devastating flooding (History.com Staff, 2009). Many viewed thee nation’s response as a massive failure, and in some ways, it was; yet we cannot fully blame the leadership that was in charge at the time. The guidance that was in place at the time had some inadequacies, which ultimately lead to the delay of sending necessary assets to Louisiana. Investigating where and how the nation failed ultimately led to the developed of new guidance to better prepare,

The devastating Hurricane Katrina left Louisiana, and the rest of America, distraught. The mighty category 5 hurricane left thousands of Louisiana residents without food, water and shelter. The devastation of the storm led the levies of the flood-protecting dam to break leaving the city underwater during the catastrophe. This natural disaster will go down in American history as the worst of its kind. Although all the unfortunate natural events that made this tragedy possible, the supervision of the event was almost as bad as the hurricane itself. There are many fingers to point at the different people handling the situation but one this is clear, it was not handled properly.

What’s wrong with the Department of Defense’s response to Hurricane Katrina? Well, it did not solve the destruction from the events of the storm because that was not the only problem worth solving. During the violent passage of Hurricane Katrina, the

Katrina exposed the nation’s poor emergency management system and its ability to respond to a deadly disaster such as Hurricane Katrina.

In 2005 a storm of Category 3 rating on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale known as Hurricane Katrina struck the gulf coast of the United States. Assumed to be the costliest hurricane in the history of the United States, Hurricane Katrina displaced hundreds of thousands of people and cost roughly $100 billion in damages. The city of New Orleans was particularly damaged because of its low average elevation and because it is almost completely surrounded by water. Many had little idea of how bad things were in New Orleans and surrounding regions with president George W. Bush and the Federal Emergency Administration (FEMA) seemed without an action plan for the devastation. The government was unprepared for the event and the masses of people it

First, the horrific events of Katrina were devastating to the citizens who were affected by this massive hurricane. Many people lost just about everything they owed and some even lost their lives. The federal government could have implemented a better strategy on how to take care of those affected. Before the hurricane made landfall, the state government should have put martial law in affect and deployed the National Guard to force people to leave their homes and seek shelter outside of the city or area that was going to be hit the hardest. The news networks should have sent out better information and outlined the hurricane evacuation routes more effectively. The people who were left behind and survived the hurricane should have been provided