Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Katrina had winds of 175 mph at peak intensity, but had weakened to 120 mph by the time it reached New Orleans.

Hurricane Katrina dealt the city of New Orleans one of its hardest blows ever. By the time Katrina moved on 80 percent of the city was flooded.

Katrina was a category 3 hurricane when it hit New Orleans, packing sustained winds of 125 mph. However, winds in New Orleans would have been somewhat less as it was struck by the left eye wall of the storm. The strongest winds are in the right eye wall.

Hurricane Katrina was the largest and third strongest hurricane ever recorded to make landfall in the U.S.

In New Orleans, the levees were designed for Category 3, but Katrina peaked at a Category 5 hurricane, with winds up to 175 miles per hour.

The storm surge from Katrina was 20-feet (six meters) high.

705 people are reported as still missing as a result of hurricane Katrina.

Hurricane Katrina affected over 15 million people in different factors such as economy, evacuations, gas prices or drinking water.

The final death toll was at 1,836, primarily from Louisiana (1,577) and Mississippi (238).

Hurricane Katrina, which struck in 2005, caused significant damage and loss of life. The exact number of people left homeless, injured, and killed is difficult to determine. The hurricane resulted in approximately 1,200 deaths and displaced hundreds of thousands of people, leaving many homeless and injured.

As demonstrated by the aftemath, the governments involved were almost completely unprepared. Neither the city of New Orleans, the state of Louisiana, or the federal government had made hurricane response a priority, as the likelihood of its occurrence was low for any given year or any given storm. But eventually it had to happen.

There were several key failings that contributed to the outcome:

1) New Orleans still depended on flawed data and poor workmanship from the US Corps of Engineers which was in overall charge of the levee system

2) The funds appropriated for levee protection (aside from the Mississippi River levees) were greatly insufficient and poorly spent

3) Neither the state of Louisiana or FEMA had mobilized the necessary equipment and supplies for the resulting catastrophe -- relief efforts in the first week were woefully inadequate, poorly organized, and incompetently directed. Only the state of Mississippi was somewhat up to the challenge, having experienced practically identical destruction in Hurricane Camille in 1969.

* The fundamental flaw in the protection of the city of New Orleans was not addressed until 2013, eight years later. The FEMA response programs were not fully funded until after Hurricane Sandy in 2012, seven years later.

the levees that protected the city broke its barriers ( new orleans is below sea level so they protected them from storm surges) this lead to very dangerous storm surges which caused serious flooding to the majority of the city

People typically seek shelter in sturdy buildings with basements, safe rooms, or designated storm shelters to protect themselves from a hurricane. It is important to stay away from windows and doors, and to seek refuge on the lowest floor possible if flooding is a concern. It is crucial to follow evacuation orders issued by local authorities to stay safe during a hurricane.

Hurricane Katrina was the most expensive hurricane in terms of destruction, and it was certainly among the worst natural disasters to hit the USA since 1900. About 1800 residents of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast died, either directly or indirectly as a result of Katrina. However, Katrina was not the worst in terms of number of deaths. The Galveston Hurricane of 1900 killed an estimated 6,000 to 12,000 people, while the 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane, killed around 2,500.

Hurricane Katrina devasted numerous cities across several states along the Gulf Coast of the United States. New Orleans and surrounding suburban cities were especially devastated when the levees holding the Mississippi River broke and the area was flooded with standing water for weeks.

F.E.M.A. is a government administrative agency which should, in a nut shell, answer this question. It was not just the delay of F.E.M.A. that remains so criticized today, once they got there they acted in a typically governmentally inept way. Before taking this overbearing and costly administrative agency to task for their own ineptness it should be pointed out that the local government of New Orleans and the State government of Louisiana weren't any examples of shining government models. Hurricane Katrina is estimated at being the costliest natural disaster in United States history, killing more than 1,800 people and costing upwards of 100 million dollars in loss of real estate. In fairness to the federal government the catastrophic failure of the levee system in New Orleans was the responsibility of New Orleans and given that nearly every single metro levee system was breached this only underscores the ineptitude of the local government.

There was an abundance of lead time in prediction of this storm from both the National Hurricane Center and the National Weather Service, but New Orleans is known as a party town and like the Aesop's Fable of the grasshopper and the Ant, New Orleans found itself a hapless little grasshopper while the survivors scurried about like desperate land agitated little ants. New Orleans Mayor, Ray Nagin, failed to implement effective evacuation plans, directing people to a shelter of last resort that had no food nor water, no security nor sanitary conditions. To make things worse, Nagin refused to use available school buses to aid in the delayed and inept evacuation citing lack of a proper insurance policy to do so. There's a responsible leader for you, in the event of an emergency first check your insurance policy and see if it is allowed to survive. That action alone is estimated to have caused the deaths of several hundred people.

The initial supplies of food and water and other necessities brought in by F.E.M.A. were depleted quickly in a large part because of State and local governments refusal to issue timely evacuation notices. While on paper F.E.M.A. likes to bluster and blow hard about its so called authority the truth is, being a federal agency, they lacked the proper jurisdiction to do much of what needed to be done. Due to State and local governments proclivity, not to mention the peoples, towards expectations of federal government efficiency and flat out ignorance of the law, instead of acting in a productive and useful manner in response to this crisis most spent much of their time criticizing the federal governments lack of response. This is not to imply that F.E.M.A. didn't have any authority and what authority they did have was used in such a ridiculous manner it is astounding that anyone still believes the federal government is useful in such crisis situations.

Of the many inept actions of F.E.M.A., it was their impediment of neighboring cities, and States who had sent help in the form of police and fire officers as well as private citizens who traveled to New Orleans to help how they could. F.E.M.A. refused the help of three water trucks provided by Wall Mart, prevented the Coast Guard from delivering more than a thousand gallons of diesel fuel, and most astonishingly ordered that the Jefferson Parish emergency communications lines be cut. This last action prompted the local Sheriff to restore the lines himself while posting armed deputies around the lines to protect it from F.E.M.A.! More than fifty civilian aircrafts had swarmed to the area to aid in evacuation but were turned away by F.E.M.A. claiming these rescuers were not authorized to help. This is a tragically brilliant illustration of modern government and their belief that everyday people can not act as needed without permission from the federal government first. We the people can only act to save lives after an Act of Congress allows us to do so here in the "freest country in the world".

F.E.M.A. ordered more than 100 million dollars worth of ice for local hospitals that mysteriously never made it to the disaster area and instead was sent to rented storage facilities around the country. Later, in a Congressional Hearing investigating F.E.M.A.'s ineptitude, Micheal D Brown, Director of this useless administrative agency had this to say: "I don't think that's a federal government responsibility to provide ice to keep my hamburger meat in my freezer or refrigerator fresh." Okay! Out of State hospitals that had sent medical supplies were turned away, and private doctors who arrived on the scene from surrounding and even remote and distant areas to help the injured and sick evacuees, were handed mops and buckets and ordered to clean up as government officials explained the "legal liability" of "allowing" doctors to do what they do was "to great of a risk". So, while people died around these doctors they mopped floors. Dark, dark, very dark and bitter irony indeed.

When Director Brown feebly explained to CNN's reporter Soledad O'Brien that he was unaware of refugees crowded at the Convention Center, O'brien questioned him with this response: "How is it possible that we're getting better info than you were getting... we were showing live pictures of the people outside the Convention Center... also we'd been reporting that officials had been telling people to go to the Convention Center... I don't understand how FEMA cannot have this information." Brown admitted to some mistakes but O'Brien kept at it: "FEMA's been on the ground four days, going into the fifth day, why no massive air drop of food and water..." and pointing out to Brown that in Banda Aceh, Indonesia there were food drops just two days after that tsunami.

As criminals and miscreants like to do when faced with helpless governments created to establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense and provide for the general welfare, in New Orleans they had a field day as gang wars erupted and looters and thugs enjoyed free reign. Meanwhile, this useless show of federal, state and local governments, all committed to disarming the citizenry decided this chaos and anarchy that ruled in New Orleans was as good a place as any to show the world they were quite capable of disarming the people. New Orleans Police Superintendent Eddie Ocampo declared that; "No one will be able to be armed", ordering local police, National Guard troops and U.S. Marshall's to confiscate all civilian held fire arms. God forbid that in a time of such crisis where criminals, rapists and murderers roam the streets unimpeded, should the governments "allow" the citizens to defend themselves. After all, that is what the government is for.

This zealous desire to disarm the citizenry resulted in thousands of warrantless seizures of firearms, in some instances using the most absurd excessive force that only governments can do so well. In one instance, captured on film, several police officers entered the home of a 58 year old woman, Patricia Konie and demanded she surrender her sole pistol, an archaic revolver she had for protection. Konie, being one of the ever diminishing people in the United States still aware of her natural right to defend herself, quite correctly refused. The gallant and heroic New Orleans police officers then tackled this 58 year political dissident fracturing her shoulder but thankfully were able to wrest the revolver away from her and haul her into the police station and charge her with obstruction of justice.

The media, ardent in their support in disarming the citizenry saw nothing news worthy about this. Even so, the NRA, so relentlessly vilified by the media and Micheal Moore, reacted immediately to help local citizens regain or keep the necessary arms in this time of violent and criminal chaos. The confiscations, resulting in more than a thousand guns and rifles spurred the State Legislators of Louisiana and and twenty one other states to pass legislation prohibiting the illegal confiscation of firearms. What a novel idea, you would have thought our forefathers would have considered this when drafting the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

In the days that followed, and once Brown was thankfully removed from his position in F.E.M.A., everyday people from across the country poured in to help with the aftermath. Quiet and unsung heroes helping those who needed it, largely unsung because our ever important "fourth estate" of a media was too busy playing blame games and pointing fingers at politicians and appointed officials ever so greedy for that next "mea culpa". So, while those who helped healed the sick and injured, cleaned up the mess and did what they could the rest of the country sat by their color T.V.'s riveted as Congress huffed as they puffed demanding answers to inexplicable failures of a government so trusted, so revered, so reliable as politicians shuffled and shifted their shifty beady eyes sniffing like rats in lame explanations and all this time later, while New Orleans still struggles, we the people sit back and occasionally wonder; "Why was it that F.E.M.A. took so long to respond?"

There are multiple times and time discrepancies for when Hurricane Katrina occurred because of different times being used for when it touched ground and when the alerts were released. The first warnings were said to have gone out around 7am EST on August 24 2005. Then, it was said to touch on the ground of the Gulf Coast at 6:30pm EST on August 25th.

Humans built the city of New Orleans in a river delta. Normally the Mississippi river keeps depositing silt in the area, but not now in areas that the city covers. As a result the land beneath New Orleans began to subside, causing the city to sink until much of it was below sea level. In addition, the destruction of wetlands in the river delta removed a protective barrier against storm surge. So when Katrina struck, there was little to stop the storm surge from breaching the levees and filling the city with water.

• Costliest ever hurricane
• 1 of 5 deadliest in USA
• Formed over Bahamas August 23rd
• Levees in New Orleans failed in more than 50 places which caused 80% of the city to flood.
• 1836 deaths from hurricane and flooding
• $81.2 Billion in repairs and reconstruction
• 3 years later there are still thousands of people still living in trailers
• Damage to economy because of 30 oil platforms being destroyed + 1.3million acres of forestry.
• Mega unemployment
• Redistributed over 1million people half never returned.
• Caused lots of looting and violence
• Substantial erosion
• Estimated 560km2 of land became water this included breeding grounds for many animals
• Flood waters pumped into lake Pontchartrain which took 43 days, pumped flood waters made up of raw sewage, bacteria, heavy metals, pesticides, toxic chemicals, and about 24.6million L of oil.
• 850,791 housing units were damaged, destroyed or inaccessible.
• 900 churches, synagogues and mosques were damaged or destroyed.
• 1,960 victims are still missing.
• 45 missing victims are aged 20 or younger.

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Welll . . . much of the destructive flooding came from the redirection of $384 million dollars of federal government money to floating casinos by various leaders of New Orleans, which meant that sorely-needed dike and levee repairs were never done.

These leaders knew full well that the dikes were very deteriorated. Yet, somehow, President Bush and FEMA were blamed. I believe that they thought that the $384 million HAD been spent on dike repairs.

Due to the death & destruction caused by Hurricane Camille the name was indefinitely retired after the 1969 hurricane season.

In terms of property damage, Katrina was the worst hurricane in U.S. history. However it was nowhere near being the deadliest tropical cyclone (the generic term for hurricanes. Hurricane Katrina killed 1,836 people. The deadliest hurricane in the U.S. the Galveston hurricane of 1900 killed at least 6,000 people and possibly as many as 12,000.

The deadliest of all tropical cyclones, the Bhola cyclone of 1970 killed at least 300,000 people.

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Hurricane Katrina struck Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama in 2005, not Florida. It caused significant damage and resulted in over 1,800 deaths across the affected regions, with New Orleans being impacted the most.

The people of Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.

The people of New Orleans were the most affected, followed by those of Biloxi, Mississippi.

Many homes were damaged or destroyed by Hurricane Katrina and many of those damaged were uninhabitable. Over 1,800 people were killed and many more were injured or displaced. Katrina made landfalls in Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi and remained a tropical storm as far inland as Tennessee. Additionally, Katrina and its remnants produced damaging tornadoes tornadoes in Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, and Mississippi.

After Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the Superdome in New Orleans sustained significant damage, particularly from flooding and wind. The roof was partially torn off, leading to water leaks, and the interior experienced extensive damage, including broken windows and debris. The facility was used as a shelter during the storm, which compounded the wear and tear. However, it was subsequently renovated and reopened in 2006, showcasing resilience in the face of disaster.