Sean Phillips Rome English 101 20‚ February 2013 Keeping the Faith Is there a certain date that has forever impacted your life and you will never forget? For me‚ that date is August 29‚ 2005 (the dreadful day Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Gulf Coast of the United States and mainly the city of New Orleans). What was once thought of a few days before as a non-threatening storm would forever change the lives of hundreds of thousands of people forever. My grandma
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Hurricane Katrina was a man-made and natural disaster. The hurricane‚ of course‚ was a natural disaster. The after effects like the levees breaching‚ people starving and dieing in the streets‚ how the government handle the situation were all man made. The reason being a man made were ‚ The man-made part of the disaster is that the government knew the levees wouldn’t hold up in a Category 3 hurricane‚ and they didn’t shore them up anyway. What was also man-made was the fact that the government
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that I think everything was done the way it should have been done. All the nurses and physicians did what they could to keep the hospital running as smoothly as they possibly could. The hospital went through a devastating natural disaster of Hurricane Katrina. It was so devastating that it was hard to believe it really happened. No one could stop it only mother nature. It happened and it was real. Memorial hospital became like an island of only the hospital as the flood waters rose around it(Anna
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Hurricane Katrina swept away the gulf coast on August 25‚ 2009. Katrina was the most monstrous storm that has ever visited the coast and was considered an amalgam of tropical waters and dusty winds. It was the deadliest hurricane of category five causing horrendous damage and traumatizing scenes. Many lives were taken away and many lives have changed. I was nine years old running around playing. I heard a loud banging noise and walked outside to see my dad hammering nails into wood to cover the
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exceeded 20 inches in multiple parishes causing catastrophic flooding that submerged over 100‚000 homes and businesses and killed 13 people. In portions of Baton Rouge and Lafayette accumulations peaked at 31.39 inches‚ which was more than during Hurricane Katrina and Isaac The National Weather Service rates it a 1-in-1000-year event! Governor John Edwards‚ called the disaster a “historic‚ unprecedented flooding event” and declared a state of emergency. Oh the wonderful‚ beautiful‚ loving‚ extremely exciting
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Proposal /Disaster Research Proposal Page 1 * My disaster paper will focus mainly on the direct and indirect effects of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans were made by the community and the state‚ which also affected New Orleans and surrounding areas. My initial research on this topic of Hurricane Katrina was that‚ although there was a slew of different aids and reliefs sent to New Orleans and other surrounding areas‚ there were periods where there wasn’t enough or too much time was taken so
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October 29‚ 2012 Hurricane Sandy a category 2 made landfall in New Jersey. Sandy had + 96 mph winds and a 6ft-8ft storm surge. Force winds extend 175 miles out from Sandy’s eye‚ making it much larger than most storms. Before the storm hit many of residence were without power due to sever winds and rain. Many people did not know how to prepare for such a storm in the North East states. Hurricane Sandy weakened to a post-tropical cyclone in the evening before it hit the southern coast of New Jersey
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EH-1020-O8C-5A09-52 Aftermath of Katrina‚ Returning to a Safe Workplace There is still a difference between something and nothing‚ but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.” Martin Garden” People are powerless under natural forces such as Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans that occurred on August 29‚ 2005. This catastrophe has brought death‚ deprived people of their homes and work-places. ‘Katrina has left a disaster
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HURRICANE: Katrina Hurricane Katrina was a horrific category five hurricane that stretched from Florida to New Orleans. However‚ the Hurricane didn’t start as an enormous hurricane that killed thousands of people originally‚ it was formed about 200 miles south-east of the Bahamas on August 23rd‚ 2005. On August 25th the hurricane hit Florida it was a small category 1 hurricane that was so small that after weakening slightly on land it was re-classified as only tropical storm; it had two victims
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“Hurricane Katrina was the 3rd strongest and largest hurricane ever recorded to make landfall in the US” (dosomething.org)‚ with storm surges up top 20ft and wind speeds up to 175 miles per hour the final death toll was 1‚577 in Louisiana and another 238 in Mississippi for a total of 1‚836 deaths. Hurricane Karina reached up to a Category 5 hurricane‚ hurricane levees set up in New Orleans were only made for a Category 3. At one
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