HURRICANE KATRINA
- Created by: ed bee
- Created on: 21-04-17 14:45
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- Hurricane Katrina
- Causes
- winds of 250km/hr = CAT5
- most people in new Orleans live below sea level in the "bowl"
- people evacuated before Hurricane Ivan, but it did'nt hit
- people didn't believe evacuation warnings for Katrina
- went over the Golf of Mexico, making it powerful
- due to the warm ocean
- Effects
- 1833 dead
- 80% of New Orleans flooded
- including oil refineries
- oil price rose
- including oil refineries
- sewage made water supply toxic
- displaced more than 1 million
- cost $200 billion
- Responses
- National Guard helped evacuations
- thousands took refuge in Superdome
- Engineers rebuilt Levees
- email and text message systems called NolaReady whcih alerts residents
- $50 bn given in aid by US government
- Causes
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