Hurricane Katrina 2005 - Geography Case Study & overview of the events
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- In this case study of Hurricane Katrina I examine the lead up to the tropical storm and the subsequent events that occurred in New Orleans. It covers various need to know statistics and also the sequential events that lead up to the levee failures.
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Well done study: It's now 2018. I didn't realize that the levee breached in so many places. I had the impression once families got to the Superdome, they would be safe and given proper care. It makes me sad to realize those folks were trapped in a place that had inadequate facilities for feeding, clothing and maintaining order. It was a catastrophe on a far larger scale than I ever imagined. The whole city needs to be re-examined by engineers who can determine a way to rebuild -- with a 'worst-case-scenario' in mind. Thank you for the clear illustration of the situation.
OceanSwimmer they were told long before the storm to leave. They were also told there would be no shelters south of I-12. The city had no plans to shelter citizens.. The reason. they were not "cared for". In the mean time the idiot governor Blanco was arguing with Washington over who would be in charge of any military help sent in. Seems she was never taught there is only one Commander in Chief. As for Mayor Nagan he was at his mansion located just outside of Dallas, Texas..
Thomas Ritter unfortunately this is a city full of people living below the poverty level. Evacuating costs a lot of money. A majority of people don't even have transportation to get out. There are so many factors that people who haven't been through these things can't really fathom. When Katrina came through I was in California. I too thought "why didn't people leave, why this and why that" I've since moved to Louisiana and have a whole new understanding of how the poor are treated, race is and was a factor as well. Bigotry and racism is alive and well in Louisiana. It's very sad. Government? That's a whole other mess.
Thank you for explaining the situation. Here in California we have an idiot governor as well. God help us if we have a state wide emergency. If the Mayor isn't there monitoring how everything is going, that is dereliction of duty. I am sorry you had such a rough time of it.
The incompetent African government didn't properly maintain the system of pumps and levies. The African population responded in the worst possible way. Katrina was a man-made disaster.
@@thomasritter3159
1. How long is long? The storm was forecast to hit Florida as late as the Friday before it landed in Louisiana and Mississippi. About a million people got out.
2. In a practice that changed after Katrina, the Superdome was always a shelter of last resort. So it was a plan to have a shelter south of I-12.
3. Governors of states are commanders-in-chief of their own states' national guards.
4. Nagin was in the Hyatt next to the Superdome, across the street from CIty Hall during the storm.
Love the video! As a Katrina survivor (I was just a baby when it hit) I've been on a quest to find videos about the event. It's nice to find a video that isn't just focused on the aftermath and talks more about what went wrong. Also nice to find a video that isn't by Nat Geo or some news channel
Good stuff. Videos are looking better and better.
Mm, jazzy.
Here from miss Thornton. From Michal.R
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hope this comes tommorow good lucl
whats the music in the background called
Awesome
“the flood walls did nt hold back the waters”
This is where the lies begin.
New Orleans drowned because the open mouths of the canals meant for many years the rains were pumped OUT into Lake Pontchartrain.
The U. S. Corps of Engineers had requested funds from the New Orleans Levee Board to build floodgates (locks) to close those open drainage canals. The board had refused, as it was spending its money to continue improving Lakefront airport and selling lots around the area .
All the post Katrina propaganda blames either President Bush or the Corps of Engineers.
When the wall of water from the Gulf surged through the Rigolets into shallow Lake Pontchartrain it created a 20’ wall of water which slammed INTO all the open canals.
The second name to blame is Mayor Roy Nagin.
Amtrak offered to send a relief train over the trestle bridge from the west but he rejected it. He said he was going to “keep his chocolate city”. Then he flew to Dallas with his family.
The third name is Governor Kathleen Blanco.
She spent 36 hours before the storm hit setting up her New Orleans Hurricane Relief Foundation.
You can still find this foundation-millions poured in from every state in the country and around the world. The officers were Governor Blanco, her husband and Robert Perrot, her college friend from Southeast Louisiana University. The foundation still exists in Newport Beach, California.
The Levee Board has been quietly replaced by the South east Flood Protection Agency. The mayor no longer appoints the members. The governor and a council now name the 9 members. At least one must be a certified civil engineer.
cor blimy calm down
@@DisabledHedgehog87 hope thats not on tele
can u speak a bit faster?
The thing that made Katrina so bad was that it landed in an outpost of Africa and the Africans reacted to the storm the way Africans react to any loss of order. They went wild!
After a year I think you should look at this comment and think about how you should delete it for generalizing a continent and being borderline racist :)
Shut the fuck up racist idiot.
shut up omg thats just racist and a lie. the thing that made katrina bad was it's fast winds and slow moving. and yes many ppl went wild, and they're not to blame! and they werent just africans...
I’m hurt by you
@@amsi4087 No. bigger hurricanes hit areas that are not outposts of Africa and it's fine. They don't shoot at helicopters trying to rescue them.