Hurricane Katrina
- Created by: gtaylor01
- Created on: 12-05-17 13:50
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- Basic info
- 8.5 m storm surge in New Orleans
- 200-250mm rainfall along gold coast
- 29th aug 2005 strikes Florida, Louisiana, Bahamas, Gulf of Mexico
- Hurricane Katrina
- Impacts on physical environment
- 218 sq/miles of marsh land turned into open water
- Agricultural production damaged
- cotton and sugar- cane crops flattened
- Industrial waste, raw sewage + spilled oil contaminated New Orleans neighbourhoods
- Impacts on build environment
- telephones + mobiles didn't work, no internet access
- tv stations disrupted
- roads damaged
- 80% of New Orleans underwater
- 3 million left w/out electricity for weeks
- tourism centres badly affected
- telephones + mobiles didn't work, no internet access
- Impacts on human environment
- over 3000 deaths in Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida
- costs = $100 billion
- long term: jobs lost, tourism centres badly affected, little tourism thus little income
- short term: flooding because water will clear
- Responses
- short term: FEMA mobilised 1000 homeland security workers to provide assistance to the city
- long term: 560km levee floodwall system was put in place
- diverted water from Mississippi river to rebuild wetlands
- network of backup warehouses enough to shelter 350,000 residents
- army corps of engineers rebuilt the levee system
- high barriers
- levees supported with steel beams that extend a far as 65 feet below sea level
- high barriers
- Long term impacts: 10 years later
- empty spaces where houses used to be
- 4/5 residents believe New Orleans has almost recovered
- in lower 9th ward the first school reopened 2 years later
- little rebuilding in predominately black wards
- 3/5 black residents believe New Orleans hasn't almost recovered
- income gap between black and white residents has widened
- in the lower 9th ward some roads and some houses are being rebuilt
- NOT 10 YRS LT: 500,000 people including 160,000 children couldn't return to their homes for three months
- NOT 10YRS LT: increase in respiratory illnesses due to higher old counts in flooded/ damp areas
- NOT 10 YRS LT: poverty rates in New Orleans remain high
- Long term management
- united methodist committee of relief funded $6million 60 case management teams in the Gulf Coast region + other regions that will supply one on one support
- 5 mission areas from The National Planning Frameworks: prevention, protection, mitigation, response and recovery
- since 2005, FEMA has gained statutory authority to surge resources to states, tribes and territories ahead of disaster should the capacity of states or ties become overwhelmed
- federal search and rescue coordinating group
- FEMA has a year-round presence at the National Hurricane Center and deploys a Hurricane Liaison Team during hurricane season
- Impacts on physical environment
- levees caused flooding in New Orleans
- failure of leadership @ federal, state and city level turned the disaster into a major unprecedented humanitarian crisis
- inadequate response from authorities
- 280km/h winds
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