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Hurricane Katrina Changed A Lot Of People's Lives
Hurricane Katrina Have you hear about the Hurricane in New Orleans that changed a lot of people’s lives? A hurricane is a natural disaster. Hurricane is a tropical phenomenon caused by the weather changes. For example, Hurricane Katrina was a powerful hurricane that caused several damages in New Orleans. The effects of Hurricane Katrina were property damages, displaced people, and lost of people’s lives. One of the Hurricane Katrina effects was property damages. Hurricane Katrina was a category 3 but when it touched down it turned into a category 5. It meant that the
Hurricane was powerful and we had to expect a lot of damages. According to the article, more than $80 billion have been spent for the U.S. government to build again the damaged places by Hurricane …show more content…
"It 's unbelievable." (Lain) The damages because of Hurricane Katrina are related with money and in this case the people who control the money are not helping in the best way. In conclusion, property damages by Hurricane Katrina were disastrous. The second effect of Hurricane Katrina was housing. With the damages caused by
Hurricane Katrina, a lot of people was obligated to look for other place to live. According to the article, Hurricane Katrina had pull 1.3 million households.(Henderson, 162) With this numbers was obvious that people were supposed to even look for a house in other state. As the article claims, 75 percent of the affected people moved to other communities within 250 miles of New Orleans. Approximately 240,000 removed individuals went to Houston, San Antonio, Dallas, Atlanta, and cities within 500 miles of the coast. About 26,000 went to Chicago, Detroit and Baltimore. At least 34,000 went too far, more than 1,000 miles cities like Boston and Seattle. (Henderson, 162) To sum up, with the Hurricane Katrina damages, people had to find other place to
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