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One of the most horrific storms that ever hit the United States was Hurricane Katrina. Katrina was classified a category five hurricane, which is the worst category a hurricane can be. Since the winds in this category storm will go faster than 157 miles per hour, a category five hurricane means appalling damage will occur. When such a deadly disaster occurs, people look to their government and local officials for help, however, the local police, the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD), did not do its job. A great number of people disagree with how the NOPD participated in the relief efforts and are criticized for not being ready to handle a disaster of this magnitude.

New Orleans suffered a large number of casualties, a lack of drinkable water, severe property damage, electrical outages and many more difficulties as a result of hurricane Katrina. After the disaster, thousands of people who had lost their homes were forced to seek shelter at the New Orleans Superdome. Many others broke in to the Convention Center to find safety there. These structures were large enough to hold huge numbers of people, but did not have the proper facilities, supplies or law enforcement that was needed to sustain the amount of individuals who were forced to temporarily move in. People stayed there for several days until they were able to make other living arrangements, often in far away cities and even other states. Both of the buildings may be condemned due to the extremely

Hurricane Katrina was a big threat to the coastal areas of Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana, and the governor declared a state of emergency in reaction towards potential destruction the hurricane may fall in New Orleans, a major city in Louisiana. To prepare for the threat of Hurricane Katrina, FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency), was sent to Louisiana to help aid the state. Later, a big disaster befalls in the state of Louisiana, and the governor declared a national evacuation. New Orleans, the heavily populated city, ordered its citizen to evacuate in the Superdome, with food, shelter, and rations being distributed. After the state evacuation was made, there was a shortage of food, water, and operable toilet facilities, thus creating

Hurricane Katrina not only provided new response for natural disasters but also for terrorist response and mitigation. Hurricane Katrina helped the Department of Homeland Security to see the vulnerability of the nation and how bad a single storm could affect the communities. After Hurricane Katrina DHS started to plan and “imagine” the possibilities of future disasters both natural and manmade as if they were actually going to happen. After 9/11 FEMA was downsized and DHS replaced most of its disaster and planning operations. This became clear after seeing the poor response FEMA had with Hurricane Katrina and the thousands of people left stranded without help. The aftermath of Katrina showed how much we needed both counterterrorism along with

In regards to criticism of government response, the first responders in situation such as this are the local government. They were ill prepared for the magnitude of the damage to the levees, compounded by the large number of individuals unable to evacuate. The Superdome and the Convention Center were designated “refuges of last result” but it is unlikely that they were part of the city’s refuge network. These two structures were merely big enough to accommodate the amount of citizens that were stranded in the city; hence they were lacking the resources necessary to be effective refuges. Social stratification, inadequate evacuation measures, poor leadership among those coordinating relief efforts, ill conceived and equipped refuges, and delayed action in recruiting county, state and federal relief

Unfortunately, there was a failure of managing the risk factors associated with an actual hurricane affecting New Orleans. The current emergency plan in place at the time of Hurricane Katrina only prepared the area for a Category 3 hurricane. No one anticipated a higher category hurricane could or would hit the area. They took for granted that the probability of a stronger hurricane occurring was low, thus overlooking major risk management identifiers. When Hurricane Katrina actually hit, emergency planners were now being reactive instead of

The United States has had many hurricanes throughout history, though only a few have turned the world upside down and have had mass casualties in it. Although hurricane Katrina hit many areas two of the hardest areas that Katrina hit was New Orleans and Mississippi. On August 23,2005 people living in the Bahamas embraced for a tropical depression that would later turn into what was known as hurricane Katrina. The tropical storm started out with wind 's speed as high as 38 miles per hour. Meteorologist watched out for the hurricane and observed the bearing of it 's development. When meteorologist precept the depression, transforming into a hurricane with wind 's speeds as high as 39-73 miles per hour meteorologist were compelled to caution individuals living along the Gulf Coast that a noteworthy hurricane was going there route and to begin getting ready to evacuate if necessary. On August 28th The day preceding Katrina hit, New Orleans Mayor issued a required evocation request. The chairman additionally announced that the Superdome, a stadium situated on high ground close to downtown, would serve as an asylum for individuals who couldn 't leave the city. Somewhere in the range of 112,000 of New Orleans ' almost 500,000 individuals in Mississippi did not have access to an auto. By dusk, just about 80 percent of the city 's populace had emptied. Approximately 10,000 had sought shelter in the Superdome, while a large number of others decided to endure the

The differing needs of a vulnerable population have to be addressed in order to alleviate issues that were noted after Katrina. In particular, the needs which are known prior to a disaster, such as evacuation for the infirmed, elderly, impoverished, and those who lack the means to evacuate. The Department of Homeland Security represented a solution to addressing these needs via a three phase response: “pre-event planning and preparation, the event, and recovery” (Dept. Homeland Security, 2008). It has been widely studied that residents of a vulnerable community may be impacted more severely and are disproportionately affected than those with means following a disaster. Assessing how to prepare for each of the phases represents an issue for emergency managers especially when it comes to those who lack the means to prepare for themselves. Quickly rebuilding homes in a devastated area won’t help a community when a disaster strikes again. Platt stated that “disasters offer a window of opportunity to strengthen communities”, via “construction and change land uses to prevent a recurrence of a disaster”. (Platt, 1998) It also can be argued that following a disastrous event, this is when a true opportunity arises, by providing an opportunity to work through solving the societal issues that are the basis for a vulnerable populous via comprehensive political reforms and

1,833 people died during Hurricane Katrina. The storm began as a tropical depression in the Bahamas on August 23, 2005, 6 days before it hit the US, as a category 3 hurricane. By August 28 evacuations were underway in Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi, with New Orleans at special risk. The day before the hurricane hit New Orleans, mayor, Ray Nagin issued the city’s first ever mandatory evacuation and told the citizens of New Orleans that the Superdome sports stadium would be “the shelter of last resort.” By nightfall, 80% of the population had evacuated New Orleans. However at least 20,000 people decided to stay in the city. 10,000 of these people went to the Superdome to get to shelter and 10,000 stayed at their homes. At 6 a.m. on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck between Grand Isle, Louisiana, and the

Never before has the United States of America experienced such a large scale disaster in the modern day. Striking in August of 2005 Hurricane Katrina was the first real test for the Federal emergency Management Agency since there mission had changed after the events of 9/11 which directed the focus of FEMA to the home land much more so then ever before. After a natural disaster a primary concern of local, state, and federal Emergency Management Agency’s is always critical infrastructure. Critical infrastructure is anything that is important to the operation of society and is important to the recovery efforts such as power plants, bridges, tunnels, Dams, and hospitals. Some examples of critical infrastructure that was affected during Hurricane Katrina are the U.S 90 highway bridge, the I-10 Pascagoula River Bridge, and a CSX railroad bridge (Lwin, 2014). The Federal Emergency Management Agency is highly criticized for their response to Katrina. According to a 218 page report by the Department of Homeland Security's inspector general FEMA received "widespread criticism for a slow and ineffective response to Hurricane Katrina." (Ahlers, 2008). Some of the most notable topics that the inspector general of FEMA found were “manpower problems, a decline in planning for natural disasters as attention focused on

Hurricane Katrina was one of the biggest catastrophe the struck the state of New Orleans. Fema did not do the best jobs in distribution resources

August 29, 2005, was a horrific day for the city of New Orleans. That day was when the deadly storm Hurricane Katrina hit the city of New Orleans. It was one of the worst hurricanes in the United States history. On August 28, 2005, Katrina was upgraded to a category five hurricane, which is the worst category that a hurricane can be named. A category five hurricane means catastrophic damage will occur since the wind was going 157 miles per hour or higher. Ray Nagin the mayor of New Orleans called for the first mandatory evacuation of the city and he announced that the Superdome were some of the places that were listed as places as shelters for people who cannot leave. After the hurricane hit the city of New Orleans, the city was

In 2005 a storm of Category 3 rating on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale known as Hurricane Katrina struck the gulf coast of the United States. Assumed to be the costliest hurricane in the history of the United States, Hurricane Katrina displaced hundreds of thousands of people and cost roughly $100 billion in damages. The city of New Orleans was particularly damaged because of its low average elevation and because it is almost completely surrounded by water. Many had little idea of how bad things were in New Orleans and surrounding regions with president George W. Bush and the Federal Emergency Administration (FEMA) seemed without an action plan for the devastation. The government was unprepared for the event and the masses of people it

On the morning of August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina battered the central Gulf States, namely Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the cyclone of the Category 3 storm, which is rated according to the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale, traveled through the southern Plaquemines Parish in Louisiana with a maximum wind velocity of 125 miles per hour. Furthermore, over eighty percent of the metropolis of New Orleans was inundated by floodwater. Much of the infrastructure in New Orleans, such as the interstate highway networks, academic institutions, government offices, and emergency response services were severely damaged, leaving several neighborhoods unrecognizable, and over 1.7 million residents experienced power failures and outages. Overall, Hurricane Katrina led to over 1,200 deaths, which became the third deadliest natural disaster in American history.

Hurricane Katrina was a natural disaster that spread devastation throughout the U.S, Mexico, and one city of Canada. This monstrosity of weather was a category five hurricane, at first scientists suspected that it was a normal category three.