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The Storm Movie Analysis

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Natural disasters lead to widespread suffering and destruction of property. This paper tries to examine how both the local and national government and other local emergency response organization responded to Hurricane Katrina. Hurricane Katrina forms one of the extraordinary acts of nature that caused human tragedy. The discussion is based on the movie “The Storm”. Several issues have been pointed out which might have contributed to the failure of various authorities to manage the disaster. Poor leadership and lack of proper coordination between the various government authorities is one of major contributing reasons as to why the Hurricane Katrina disaster was not properly managed. Also, the lack of preparedness of emergency response …show more content…

The movies attempts to show how the national, local and other disaster management authorities acted during that period. It also depicts what they should have done to save the lives and property of thousand of the resident living in the Gulf Coast. The movie tries to bring the failure of the national and local government in dealing with the phenomena. After the incident, some of the government officials and other experts dealing with disasters admitted failure on their side. Some even went ahead to term the occurrence of the catastrophe as a lesson for handling future disasters and giving the matter the seriousness it deserves. The national government failed to act and protect its citizen from the time, and this shows poor leadership in the administration of that time. On the other hand, the local government too did nothing much in protecting the residents, and this shows how the cost of poor leadership can affect the lives of the …show more content…

The catastrophe exposed the failure and poor coordination in the agency, and it clearly shows how it has been poorly managed since its inception. The agency was created by President Jimmy Carter in 1979 after the state governors demanded a better response to both man-made and natural disasters by the federal government. FEMA, over the years has survived the scandal, and most of the leaders are politically appointed without much consideration for professional training of an individual. In the event of the Katrina catastrophe, blame has been put on the status of the FEMA during that period, and reports indicated the agency was dysfunctional. The main reason it was considered dysfunctional during the time is attributed to the movement of FEMA into another department, Homeland Security in the year 2003. Another reason may be attributed to leadership; the current director at the time was inexperienced in disaster

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