Hurricane Katrina
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- Created on: 01-04-16 13:10
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- Hurricane Katrina - August 2005
- causes
- level 5 hurricane
- strom surge of 5m
- winds of 195 km/h
- 49% of city below sea level
- years of little maintainance work protecting levees
- impacts
- short term
- 1836 dead, 705 mising
- 50 breaches in levees, flooded 80% of cities, mostly poor black area
- 90% of population evacuated
- 3 mil people lost power and phone lines
- water polluting
- looting
- high-rise builkdings suffered wind damage
- long term
- water and mosquito borne diseases Eg West Nile Fever
- erosion of beaches and islands- 562km2
- 20% of coastal habitats destroyed
- 1 million people relucant to travel home putting stress on evacuation areas
- 30 oil platforms and 9 refineries put out of action - 20% of US capacity causing oil prices to rise
- 5300km2 of commercial forest lost
- long term damage to cotton- causing unemploymen
- higher insurance costs, people not able to get it
- short term
- redeucing impacts/ planning
- predictions were considered good
- computer models gave very good assessment of areas most at risk by 26th Aug
- flood protection Levees in place
- local state plans initiated by declaration of state emergancy on Aug 27th
- 57 emergancy shelters opened and 32 extra opened
- plans followed several practice drills
- 60,000 national guard troops ready and coast guards on standby
- constant media coverage but evacuation only took place 19 hours before impacts
- 80% evacuated but infrastructure shut down
- responses and recovery
- coast guard rescued over 35,000 people
- FEMA put out 28 search and rescue teams
- FEMA provided 85 million litres of water, 50 million meals, and rehoused 700,000 people into trailers
- red cross supplied 68 million meals and shelter for 1.4 million families
- salvatrion army set up 178 canteen units and gave emotionals and spiritual aid to 277,000 people
- 100m3 of debris removes and 2414km on channels cleared
- US army corpse reinforced and raised 354km of levees
- FEMA gave $5.5 billion given to rebuild
- government gave $17 billion for rebuilding
- causes
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