Second Lines Of New Orleans

On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast at daybreak, “pummeling a region that included the fabled city of New Orleans and heaping damage on neighboring Mississippi. In all, more than 1,700 people were killed and hundreds of thousands of others displaced.” (Laforet, New York Times)

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

Mayor, Mitch Landrieu, of New Orleans signed an ordinance in 2015 calling for the removal of four monuments related to the Confederacy and its aftermath. It seems that New Orleans seems to be demonstrating the Confederacy’s enduring power to divide Americans more than 150 years after the war was lost. Protestors of the ordinance have been standing near the statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis waving Confederate flags and showing their disdain for the idea of removing it. The first monument to be taken down was an obelisk honoring the violent uprising in 1874 by white New Orleanians who rejected Reconstruction. Dates have not been publicised for when the other three monuments to be removed. Some defenders of the statues have even

Eighty percent of the city’s housing stock had been flooded, and sitting under this water for multiple days. Rivlin follows former mayor, Ray Nagin to show how disastrous and difficult it was to restore the housing and businesses of New Orleans. In a few pages, you can see the incompetence of public officials and how the damage from the hurricane was extremely hard to repair due to poor decision making. While the FEMA trailers are gone and a $14.5 billion food-protection system is in place 10 years later, there are still houses and businesses that were destroyed that have been untouched. Alden McDonald, president of the city’s oldest black-owned bank, says, “…the untouched destruction creates the illusion the floodwaters poured in just yesterday. There's still so much to be

The issue with the re-developing of New Orleans is an area that has been debated between governors, investors, urban planners, residents and other professionals since hurricane Katrina, the costliest “natural” disaster in 2005. This wonderful place, is a Louisiana city near the Gulf of Mexico. Its strategic position, becomes the exit of the great Mississippi-Missouri river system, which drains the interior North of America. New Orleans is one of the lowest spots in the United States, it is already as much as 17 feet below sea level in some places, and it continues to sink more than an inch a year. Re-developing New Orleans will be a difficult aspect because of its location, topography and weather conditions. However, New Orleans is one of the most culturally rich urban

In the year 2005, New Orleans was famously hit a major natural disaster that took lives and destroyed the homes and civilians. This wrath of Mother Nature became to be known as Hurricane Katrina, a category 5 hurricane with gusts peaking at 174/mph according to the Safir- Simpson wind scale (SSHS). With this Hurricane having its path directly on a city only being on average 1-2 feet below sea level, it created conditions for serious havoc (NOAA, 2012). The aftermath left a serious physical imprint on the city, which has the potential to never be removed. This imprint left by Hurricane Katrina caused extensive damage to 134,000 housing units, destroying multiple bridges along the Gulf Coast, as well as various buildings across the city, which led to harmful chemicals leaking into the water system, such as petroleum and natural gas. Finally, Hurricane Katrina also caused the main power grid to be disoriented for a number of weeks. As a result, the damage costs from the storm added up to be about $108 billion (2005 USD), which according to Eric Blake was the costliest storm ever to hit the United States (Blake et al. 2011). Hurricane Katrina perpetuated all of these tribulations, as it drastically altered the lives of the many inhabitants of New Orleans and they continue to face the repercussions of the storm in their day-to-day lives.

Hurricane Katrina was one of the deadliest and costliest hurricanes to hit the United States in decades. The economic losses were extraordinary; however, it was the human losses that stuck Americans at their core. The media brought into our homes graphic images of the destruction of New Orleans. Its mayor had ordered a mandatory evacuation of the city and yet 150,000 citizens are said to have stayed. Like most of the nation I asked myself, “Well why did they stay? If a mandatory evacuation is issued, it stands to reason that state officials considered the situation to be precarious.” It is only recently, when I’ve seen reports of New Orleans slow rebuilding, that I have really given thought to the undisclosed factors that lead to such

The United States wanted possession of the port by the city of New Orleans , near the mouth of the mississippi river. By 1800, thousands of farmers were settling land to the west of the Appalachian Mountains. The farmers depended on being able to move their crops freely along the Mississippi river. They needed to float their crops to the market by the Mississippi. Across the Mississippi River lay the unexplored territory of Louisiana. The territory was first claimed by france. It was then given to spain after the French and Indian war. In 1800 the French ruler Napoleon Bonaparte convinced Spain to return Lousiana back to the France. Napoleon hoped that there would be thousands of farmers, and the farmers would grow crops and raise food.James

The New Orleans-Delta is also culturally connected. One major part of the region that covers a large percentage of the area is the bayou. The bayou is a massive area composed of slow moving rivers or streams and marshy lakes or wetlands. The bayou is centered in Louisiana and covers a large amount of the state. It then stretches into some parts of Mississippi, into Mobile, and even into the panhandle of Florida. The bayou is of large cultural importance to the people in this region as many rely on it for food and shelter. Native Americans (like the Choctaw people) have lived on the bayou for thousands of years (NationalGeographic.org). They use it for shrimping, and for fishing for catfish and other large fish, and live

The city of New Orleans lies below sea level in a bowl bordered by levees which prevent the high waters of the Mississippi River from flooding the city. These levees were put to the test on August 29, 2005 when Hurricane Katrina hit, causing severe destruction along the Gulf coast. Three concrete floodwalls protecting the city of New Orleans fractured and burst under the weight of surging waters from the hurricane, killing hundreds and resulting in an estimated $100 to $150 billion worth of damage (Luegenbiehl, 2007). In the aftermath of the storm, society placed part of the blame on design flaws that compromised the safety of the levees and endangered the public. Under the Flood Control Act of 1965, Congress had mandated the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) to protect the city from a Category 3 storm, yet the floodwalls were unable to withstand the force of Hurricane Katrina, which was eventually classified as Category 3 (Grunwalk & Warrick, 2005). The Corps pointed towards a massive surge that exceeded the height of the floodwalls, but investigations by civil engineers and other experts pointed towards the inadequate design and construction by the Corps of Engineers as the cause of the failure (Englehardt et al., 2013). The Corps acted in a manner contradicting ethical engineering behavior by being less than forthcoming about deficiencies that were accumulating in the overall system. In order to prevent future disasters involving human life, the government should require

Katrina hit New Orleans, Louisiana on August 29th, 2005, but the failure of the local government started before this day “by allowing building and growing in areas in low flood lands.” The local government did not regulate these land areas that have always

The Laffite/Treme area sits in the heart of the 6th ward, one of seventeen wards of New Orleans located in the downtown section of New Orleans, LA. Geographically, the 6th ward is the city’s smallest ward only 4 blocks wide and right under 40 blocks long. The 6th ward is a long, narrow stretching back from the Mississippi River, including a largely section of the French Quarter. According to the census count pre-Katrina, there were 8553 people, 3429 households and 2064 families residing in this neighborhood with 866 residing in the Laffite Housing Development. Although this area had a few Caucasian residents, the community was predominately black. Within the boundaries of this neighborhood, churches lie on almost

Following Hurricane Katrina, many people sought to answer the question of whether its social effects and the government response to the country’s biggest natural disaster had more to do with race or with class. During the Hurricane Katrina, the damage was worst in the city's low-lying areas where poor, black residents were concentrated. The fact that most of those pleading for help were black served as a reminder that race continued to affect the opportunities of Americans. The racial dimension of this inadequate governmental response provided a focused attention on the mixture of political bungling and racial hostility that transformed a natural disaster into an enduring human tragedy. Race, class and economic factors are seen as inextricably

Arguably, the hurricane Katrina effect was estimated to cover about 90,000 square miles; affecting over eighty percent of the city’s land space (Jacob et al., 2008). The disaster led to the displacement of over eight hundred thousand New Orleans citizens and directly affected over one million families (Kirk, 2009). These exceptional properties and life loss was recorded in

In August of 2005, Hurricane Katrina vigorously tore apart the U.S. Gulf Coast Region killing at least 1500 people, ranking at the third deadliest hurricane in United States history. Author of Survival and Death in New Orleans, Patrick Sharkey (2007), looked specifically at data on New Orleans residents that perished during Katrina in an attempt to look at the communities that were most affected by this unfortunate disaster. The storm took the largest toll on the elderly population and by African Americans, who he argued were overrepresented in comparison to whites. The toll was not only physical but mentally damaging as well, due to the overwhelming amount of loss to their homes, family members, pets, and childhood neighborhoods in which