The size and strength of hurricane katrina resulted in one of the largest natural disasters in our nations history. For the purpose of timely release, data contained within this report have undergone a limited nos quality. If 911 was a failure of imagination, then katrina was a failure of initiative. Recovery and mitigation resourceslinks and other resources have been provided to various federal, state, and local agencies involved in hurricane katrina response and recovery activities as well as additional. Topographybased analysis of hurricane katrina inundation of new orleans 55 the u. The general credited with turning around the governments response to hurricane katrina in 2005 said the trump administration is bungling its efforts in puerto rico. Lauderdale through south west miami, coral gables home of the. The use of data for one full year prior to the hurricanes allows us to check for any unusual. Hurricane katrina report florida department of highway. Hurricane katrina occurred four years after the attacks of 911, three years after the subsequent creation of the department of homeland security dhs, and one year after the dhs had created a national response plan.
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Hurricane katrina hit on august 29, 2005, the logical strategy is to compare data from 2005q3, 2005q4, 2006q1, 2006q2, 2006q3, and 2006q4 to the baseline of 2005q2. No one anticipated the degree and scope of the destruction the storm would. Homeland security affairs is an academic journal available free of charge to individuals and institutions. This special report was archived in september 2006. When chairman davis issued his final report on hurricane katrina, he warned. Hurricane katrina in the gulf coast mitigation assessment team report iii executive summary the north atlantic hurricane season for 2005 began early and was an unusually active season, breaking the previous recorded hurricane season records for the number of named storms, hurricanes, category 5 hurricanes, major hurricanes making u. The unprecedented nature of the katrina crisis renders comparisons problematic, but. Cities such as new orleans, louisiana, mobile, alabama, and gulfport, mississippi bore the brunt of katrinas force. Accurate estimates of flood volume were needed to project the length of time required to remove. Use nitro pros pdf merger to quickly combine pdf documents and a variety of. Because hurricane katrina hit on august 29, 2005, the logical strategy is to compare data from. Request pdf analyzing afteraction reports from hurricanes andrew and katrina. Merge pdf with nitro pro combine pdf files in seconds.
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Katrina was not a typical hurricane as it approached landfall. Katrina was an extraordinarily powerful and deadly hurricane that carved a wide swath of catastrophic damage and inflicted large loss of life. A report on the impact of hurricanes katrina and rita on. This lesson is designed for language arts, journalism, mass media, and communications classes in grades 912. Of those who reported evacuation was not feasible because of limited means, seveninten 71% cite having nowhere else to go, and nearly fourinten 37% did not have a car and reported they were not able to leave their houses without assistance 36% see table 2. This makes katrina the third most intense united states u. Hurricane katrina reports katrina was an extraordinarily powerful and deadly hurricane that carved a wide swath of catastrophic damage and inflicted large loss of life. Today the white house released its afteraction report on the federal response to hurricane katrina. Epa compared samples with sampling conducted before hurricane katrina to determine whether the site was impacted by hurricane katrina. Hurricane katrina was the costliest and one of the five deadliest hurricanes in the history of the united states. Fact sheet secretary bodman is leading the most comprehensive response effort to a natural disaster in the history of the department of energy doe. Doe will continue to work to help bring lifesaving and life. Noaa nos coops hurricane katrina preliminary report page 3 of 20 table 2.
What went wrong in general terms, the challenges to our collective response to hurricane katrina are not difficult to identify. Accurate estimates of flood volume were needed to project the length of time required to remove the water from the city. Hurricane katrina news and analysis from the nation. Hurricane katrina raised major questions about our nations readiness and ability to respond to catastrophic disasters. This survey is reflective of 67 companies reports as of 11. But despite the heightened attention to homeland security, the response to katrina was a failure. Government failed because it did not learn from past experiences, or because lessons thought to be learned were somehow not implemented. At the time of our visit, many safety net clinics in the city were closed, and those that were open were reported to have limited capacity. Relatively little was known about the status of physicians and other health care workers. Browse essays about hurricane katrina and find inspiration. Brown national hurricane center 20 december 2005 updated 14 september 2011 to include damage estimates from the national flood insurance program and to revise the total damage estimate.
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