New Orleans Hurricane Katrina Case Study

We all have our problems in life, whether it’s lack of friends, food, or even money. That’s one thing that makes us all similar. We’re all struggling in some way or another. What’s important is that us human beings are all here to help each other. That makes handling our problems much easier, right?

One of the most horrific times in New Orleans history was due to Hurricane Katrina. On August 29, 2005 Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans causing massive destructions and flooding throughout all of New Orleans. Katrina forced many individuals to be evacuated from their homes due to flooding. In some parts of New Orleans the water reached up to 15 to 20 feet causing mass chaos and confusion. With the mass of destruction and lack of protection from the local law enforcements, crime in New Orleans spike considerable. There were individuals who were looting and sacking stores, gangs were more prevalent and visible. This created an issue for the New Orleans police department because many of their five hundred officers were cut off by the storm and floodwaters causing many to walk away from their posts. This left the department in shambles, having police New Orleans without having all of its police officers in place to help maintain order. A lot of policeman faced high levels of stress and distress due the rising flood waters, the conditions made their job increasingly tougher. Not only were they tasked with maintaining order, but many of their families were affected by the storm as well. The policemen became targets of angry residents and mob violence and in some instances having to protect

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

Hurricanes are powerful and dangerous storms that involve great rain and win. When a tropical storm has a wind speed greater than 75 miles per hour, it is considered a hurricane. The United States of America has dealt with many hurricanes that have cost a substantial amount of damage. However there is one hurricane that occurred in 2005 that stands out among the others, Hurricane Katrina. Hurricane Katrina was the deadliest and most destructive of the Atlantic Hurricanes during the hurricane season. Hurricane Katrina had a great economic and environmental impact on the United States which will take time to completely recover from.

Although rebuilding the levees,drainage system and infrastructure were essential for the protection of the people, the rebuilding of communities is just as important. It’s more than just these events such as Hurricane Katrina that cities need to focus on to becoming more resilient.47 In July 2006, the Rockerfeller Foundation, Greater New Orleans Foundation and the Bush- Clinton Fund announced the Unified New Orleans plan (UNOP) process that would build upon previous efforts and constructively more towards an overall recovery plan for the city and of its citizens. 48 As Christopher Kennedy notes, “infrastructure primarily mean transportation systems, which determine land use in cities, and other physical assets such as water pipes , sewers

It was late August 2005 when New Orleans, Louisiana was hit by the category 5 Hurricane Katrina. Hurricane Katrina was the fifth hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, and the eleventh storm named. It’s currently ranked as the third most intense United States hurricane, behind only 1900’s Galveston hurricane and 1928’s Okeechobee hurricane. It was the most costly disaster of natural means, while also being one of the five deadliest hurricanes in the United States of America. This storm affected America in many aspects including socially, economically, and politically.

According to the National Hurricane Center (Knabb, Rhome, & Brown, 2005, p. 1), Hurricane Katrina was a major hurricane, a tropical storm reached Category 5 hurricanes in the Saffir-Simpson. The hurricane winds reached over 280 km / h, and caused major damage in the coastal region of the southern United States, especially around the metropolitan area of New Orleans, on August 29, 2005, where more than a million people were evacuated. The hurricane caused 1,833 deaths and is therefore considered one of the most destructive hurricanes have hit the United States. The event much paralyzed the oil extraction activity and US natural gas, since much of the US oil is extracted in the Gulf of Mexico. More than five million people were without power in the region of the Gulf Coast, having taken weeks for the power was partially restored because the neighborhoods most affected the basic service framework provided slowly to be regularized.

The world is made up of mostly water, human beings are made up of mostly water also; water is everywhere. Water helps us sustain life most of the time, unless it’s a tropical storm coming up from the Atlantic Ocean killing thousands. Specifically August 24th, 2005; a very strong storm known as Hurricane Katrina was heading northwest towards the mainland of the United States. Such a storm could lead to catastrophe and there will be no happy ending for anyone. When any type of natural disaster strikes, how does America respond and help those who are in need. The idea of Hurricane Katrina interested me because my favorite college football team are known as the “Miami Hurricanes”. It felt right to research hurricanes and how it affects many people near waters. I hope to learn why hurricanes form the way they do and what makes them dangerous. Many people were affected from Hurricane Katrina, so what were most people doing in the year 2005 before mayhem struck.

August 29, 2005 was the day that one of the most costly and deadliest natural disasters hit the Mardi Gras capital of the world. On this day Hurricane Katrina made its landfall in Louisiana. According to the National Climatic Data Center, when the hurricane reached land it was categorized as a Category 3 hurricane, with winds at 125 miles per hour. There were levees in place all along the border of Louisiana and parts of Mississippi. The U.S Army Corps of Engineers built these levees, which are a part of the Hurricane Protection System, shortly after a previous hurricane that occurred in 1947. They were made to protect areas of Louisiana from potential floodwaters of the Mississippi River and Lake

New Orleans is built on a dangerously dynamic environment where the Mississippi River is constantly changing causing major maintenance of water resource management systems. One of the focus of the management was providing dry land for housing. In the twentieth century, New Orleans development of an extensive water management infrastructure caused the spatial separation of European American and African American by allowing urban expansion via development of suburbs growing into segregated housing. The main elements of this separation are wealth and racism. The ending result is a differential risk of flooding between European American and African American hence the catastrophe of Hurricane Katrina.

Tariq HollandsworthURST 241Anthony PratoTHE STORMWhat government leaders, agencies, and officials were responsible for the political falloutof Katrina?● FEMA director Michael Brown gave a false and misleading statement about theeffort and effectiveness given by the president and governor to the public. Makingthe situation look as though it were being taken care of. He also said thegovernment just learned about the information “today”. Also says he couldn’thelp because he says the people didn’t ask exactly what they needed or a list ofpriorities. FEMA didn’t deliver any of the requests specifically from the 45 pagerequest sheet. Also the president didn’t make enough effort or initiative afterKatrina. It took the president 6 days

This reading detailed a study regarding to the effects Hurricane Katrina had in New Orleans while raising the questions about how race and class influence human, as well as institutional, responses to the disaster. It questions how ‘natural’ are natural disasters where it is our social construction on disasters that determines how devastating they are. ‘The primary objective of this paper is to examine the extent to which racial and class differences influenced human responses to Hurricane Katrina’ (page 296).

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:

In today’s world, there has been one disaster or another, and hurricanes are one of those disasters that always happens. But, for one reason or another we are never prepared or understand the danger of any type of hurricane over a category one. Most of us have been through many hurricanes, like this learner who has lived in Miami, Fla. for over 30 years, and experienced her last hurricane which was Hurricane Andrew. Warnings are always given, first responders are trained to all ways be on alert, and FEMA is supposed to be ready to jump in once the storm has done its damage. But we can never be prepared, because hurricanes are unpredictable, and can become deadly for citizens and create millions of dollars in damages. Within this post we will discuss Hurricane Katrina, preparedness and Emergency management before and after the disaster.

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