Katrina Whyne: A Short Story

Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Gulf Coast, destroying lives, leveling homes and leaving thousands of survivors with the same story: We lost everything. Experiencing the loss and devastation of a natural disaster taught me the appreciation of life and how to start over and move forward without dwelling on the past.

In just a matter of months, Sarah has hastily experienced and heard things that she hadn’t thought she would. As she moved into her cousin’s home, she begins to see how the

In this paper I read the Essay that Abe Louise Young wrote about “The Voice of Katrina Part One”. In this Essay at its core is about Hurricane Katrina, which was a massive hurricane that hit in 2005. It caused massive damage and destruction along the Gulf coast from Florida to Texas. Hurricane Katrina will always be remembered for hitting New Orleans, Louisiana, when the levee system failed leaving 80% of the city flooded and destroyed. Hitting the worst parts of New Orleans such as the 9th ward, already being one of the poorest areas in Mississippi. Much of the Essay talks about the people of New Orleans, Abe being a new graduate started Alive in Truth: The New Orleans Disaster Oral History and Memory Project, her goal she state’s is to

Paycheck to Paycheck: The Life & Times of Katrina Gilbert documents a period in the

Her mother disclosed that Karen’s biological father was abusive toward her, but not to their children. She left him after an incident where he hit her while she was holding her kids. She felt her kid’s safety was being seriously threatened. Katrina reported symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder from the abuse she suffered from Karen’s biological father as well as from a sexual assault in her adolescent years. She also experienced chronic headaches and fatigue, which sometimes limited her involvement with her children. She revealed that her family of origin was unstructured and that she had “too much freedom,” which she felt contributed to the sexual assault she suffered. She believed that she was allowed to “run wild” and became involved

So the story has to do with me my dad and some beignets in New Orleans also a drunk guy. Alright the story begin at the end of the school year last year. My parents to me and my sister took us on a two week vacation. Where we went from New Orleans for a four days, to Anna Maria for a day then to the Keys for three(more like 1 ¾ ish because of a storm) and then back up to Anna Maria for the rest of it. When we got to New Orleans it was late and we got to our hotel and slept.

Setting aside the philosophical and legal issues this case raises, what are the management or efficiency arguments for and against a more centralized response to large national disasters like Hurricane Katrina?

The American natural disaster Hurricane Katrina is likely to be the most actively blamed associated disaster in the United States. Although the question remains who is to receive the blame – for the deaths and failures of appropriated emergency response and aid, I believe to place the blame on one party over another is dismissive due to sundry factors requiring attention. This is not to say, however, that FEMA or the national or state and local governments are not at all to blame for this tragedy -- as they were all responders to the situation, but how yellow journalism was utilized – by journalists – to provide false and inaccurate statements regarding Hurricane Katrina.

I am a girl named Chloe that is 12 years old and lives in Galveston,Texas. A report one night on the T.V was the weather

Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent flood were the most costly natural disaster in the history of the United States. Nearly 2,000 people died in the entire area where the hurricane and flooding occurred, though this area included vast regions outside of New Orleans metropolitan area. This ethical analysis examines the role of levee design and maintenance, which was under the primary authority of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The system lacked redundancy, and the various components of the system did not meet the same design standards. For example, some of the levee walls did not meet required standards of height or the proper foundational materials, creating weak spots, while redundancy could have been achieved if the pumping system was adequate to handle a severe hurricane. An ethical analysis guided by the ethical concepts, approaches, and theories of descriptive/normative judgments, virtues, absolutism, and utilitarianism results in two recommendations:

She got through and tiptoed over to Daisy’s bed. She grabbed up the dog as fast as she possibly could, then she dashed out the gate. When she got home she opened the door and shoved the dog inside. Daisy was laying down in a corner and Katherine figured she would be fine for the night where she was. Katherine got into bed and quickly fell asleep. She got up the next morning and walked into the living room. Her couch was torn to shreds and the glass tray full of cookies that was on the counter was shattered on the floor and there was crumbs everywhere. Daisy was sitting in the kitchen licking the floor.

Alexis Moloney was just another person in this world. But one day, something horrible happened. She was just enjoying another day of life, doing what she does every other day, but then it happened. She came home and was devastated. An fire had broken out in her house and most everything was burned. She didn’t have many people to turn to, and those she could have, didn’t have enough money to support her. So she went from place to place and finally she found a place at her cousin’s home. While she was there she listened to what the news had to say about the fire that consumed her home. The news didn’t report anything for a while after it happened. She waited and waited, and when it finally came on the news, there wasn’t much about it.

Hurricane Katrina was one of the most deadliest hurricane in history. Hurricane Katrina happened on August 23, 2005 and ended on August 31, 2005. The hurricane was located in the Bahamas and most of east North America, mostly New Orleans. Storms in the Atlantic are usually given French, English or Spanish sounding names and, each begin with the 26 letters English alphabet except for the letters Q, U, X, Y,

The day started off as any other. Scarlet tended to the farm in the morning, went to work, hung out with her friends. But as Scarlet near the house on the farm, she could tell something was wrong. All the lights were off in the house and everything was extremely quiet and eerie. Scarlet slowly crept inside the house scared that something bad was going to happen. She moved up the stairs and into her grandma’s bedroom to see if she was home, but she wasn’t there. Scarlet gasped, seeing someone’s ID chip laying on the bed who she presumed was her grandma’s. But she didn’t know why this had happened.

At 7:10 EDT on August 29, 2005 Hurricane Katrina made landfall, etching lasting memories of those living in and around the New Orleans, Louisiana. It was this day that Hurricane Katrina came ashore and caused what was to be thought as one of the “most destructive storm in terms of economic losses” ("Hurricane Katrina —," 2007) of all times. Who was to be blamed for the failure in emergence management response and preparation, no one seemed to know or understand. Those left in the wake of this disaster could only stand by and wonder who was at fault, what preparation were to be in place and why wasn’t there a quicker response to help the hundreds of thousands that needed immediate aid and disaster assistance.