Essay about 'Rising Tide' Chronicles Flow of Changes

David Helvarg’s “The Storm This Time” from “The Longman Reader” illustrates to us the atmosphere in New Orleans just after the hurricane Katrina hits the city. He begins describing the New Orleans airport area, where he sees warehouses and motels with their roofs ripped off or caved in, then feeling lost in the city, he starts looking for help and asks for directions. Suddenly, he receives a call from the New Orleans Aquarium, which informs him that they have lost most of their fish, giving another example of the disaster left by the phenomenon. After that, he travels to Lakeview, another location of the city, which has been underwater for two weeks, he resembles

It rained for a whole week straight none stop. It even had as much water as in the Mississippi river at the time. It caused a lot of damage through the flood costing the U.S 17 million dollars just to fix the damages that happened with the flood. The American Red Cross team had to step in help with the damages done by this flood. No one knew why it was raining for a whole week straight.

555). I have noted that regular assessments and monetarization to policies and regulations is crucial for the implementations to work to their full potential. I have explained how the Love Canal is also classified as a top man-made disaster and with regular toxin monitoring and some assessments to policies, the area is no longer harmful to nearby residents or schools. Though Hurricane Katrina was a major disaster and impacted poor African American’s the hardest, the Corps did learn from the disaster and conducted a project that involved fixing more than half the system of levees, canals, and floodwalls. I was very pleased to learn that the Corps is continuing to monitor the waterway system and even published an updated map “showing block-by-block where flooding would likely occur if a 100-year hurricane were to strike” Layzer pg. 555). Hurricane Katrina has been one of the most expensive disasters ever recorded. However, the extent of the damages to the city of New Orleans could have been minimized with regular monetarization and assessment of the waterway system of the Mississippi River, specifically the levee system. A simple check up on policies or regulations could be matter of life or death

The Johnstown flood of 1889 was a really bad time. People were roaming streets with no shoes or food. It was one of the worst floods of all time. The dam broke once before, but that was only the beginning of the terror in the city. Years later a big storm arrived.

The Great flood of 1927 The Great 1927 Flood of the Mississippi River is still in today’s time one of the worst natural disasters that has occured in the United States of America. It came in and wrecked the river and the surrounding areas for the months to come. As of today still has not been beaten by any other flood. The Flood started a long time before it ever became a concern and stayed a large issue months after it happened.

After reading a portion of Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith by Vincanne Adams, it is difficult to wrap my head around the horrible effects of Hurricane Katrina. At the time of Katrina, I was about 8 years old. I remember seeing the news and hearing people talk about it, and I thought it was frightening. However, I do not think that it registered properly in my mind. Even as I got older, and there was still mention of it, I never fully understood what really happened until I read this book. It is very easy to throw something off to the side and think “Oh, it’s not that bad” because the media only shows people getting help and they tell us that conditions are improving. No one spoke of the tragedies and lasting effects written by Adams. In this essay, I would like to discuss the issues presented throughout chapters four and five surrounding the environment, the people, and the government in New Orleans.

In the summer of 1993 the United States were faced with the most devastating flood that has ever occurred. Seventeen thousand square miles of land were covered by floodwaters in a region covering all or parts of nine states (North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Illinois). All large Midwestern streams flooded including the Mississippi, Missouri, and Kansas, Illinois, Des Moines and Wisconsin rivers. The Mississippi river was above flood stage for 144 days between April and September and approximately 3 billion cubic meters of water overflowed from the river channel onto the floodplain downstream from St. Louis.

In chapter four, it mentions about how in August 2005 Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans and how Hurricane Katrina was one of the most deadliest natural disasters as well as one of the most destructive natural disasters. The author also mentions that this storm was catastrophic and within hours of the storm, “New Orleans was eighty percent under water and in certain places the water was almost twenty feet deep” (74). The author also discusses how many of the residents were left homeless with nothing, no food nor water because of the destructive damages that was done by Hurricane Katrina; not only that but the author talks about how many residents lost their lives during this catastrophic storm. The author mentions how after the storm it was

On August 29, 2005, one of the largest hurricanes ever recorded hit the city of New Orleans, devastating millions and changing their lives and their city forever. The category 3 hurricane created mass displacement and mass destruction that the city has yet to fully recover from. The residents of this once lively and culture-filled city are still attempting to rebuild what was washed away for them ten years ago.

This paper is on the South Carolina Flood which caused many problems, residents had to leave their homes, the flood left 17 dead, 2 of which were from North Carolina. The flood wiped out many homes and the majority of the roads leading out of South Carolina. Andy Shaine quotes “At the moment we have 411 roads closed in South Carolina, 129 have been washed out,”. All of this destruction was caused from a broken dam, which workers are working around the clock to fix.

River, land and natural resources are important parts for people’s daily lives, and its configurations represent how people affected the environment over 150 years. With the improvement of technology, people are able to utilize these technologies to remold the river levee; however, the impacts that came from people also brought some significant changes to the area.

On August 12th, 2016, the southern part of Louisiana was flooded do to massive rain fall. I feel this is a big topic that should be talked about because of the eye opening things that have happened such as damage and the record breaking water levels recorded. This stuff really should be talked about but isn’t.

This research project is “A look into why the levees failed during Hurricane Katrina?” This report includes a brief description of the intensity, size and the destructive impact of Hurricane Katrina. It also states the observations of the levee failures at different sites and areas. There were five levees that are discussed in this report: the 17th Street Canal, London Avenue Canal – North, London Avenue Canal North - across from the breach, London Avenue Canal – South, and outside New Orleans.

This project is about a hurricane that changed the course of, not only several people in Louisiana, but the government and the United States itself. This paper discusses the way Hurricane Katrina affected the economy, geography and the restoration process of the people affected. This paper will explain the process the government used to help those affected with FEMA, fixed the broken levees and land loss crisis ,and rebuilding of the cities severely distressed.

Information that was used to develop my conclusions were relative to the history of Clearwater River such as the average normal discharge of 40,000cfs, the fact that the river can accommodate 55,000cfs before flooding will occur, and that with every increase of 2600cfs the river rises one foot. For example, this information helped to determine that four of the thirteen noted Peak Flood Discharges listed on the worksheet were not at flood stage as the river is able to accommodate discharges less than 55,000cfs. However, nine of the thirteen Peak Flood Discharges listed on the worksheet were at flood stage or drastically above; with the maximum rise of 17.77 feet above and a discharge rate of 101,200cfs. The average discharge rate of the top three noted floods per information on the Stream Gauge Data of Peak Flow Discharges is 93,613cfs, which is resourceful later in determining the extrapolated 75-year flood.