Hurricane KatrinaHurricane Katrina

By:PriscillaTorresBy:PriscillaTorres

OUTLINEOUTLINE

I. hurricane KatrinaI. hurricane Katrina

A.DEATHS OF HURRICANE KATRINAA.DEATHS OF HURRICANE KATRINA 1)1,300 BODIES FOUND1)1,300 BODIES FOUND 2)STILL MANY MISSING2)STILL MANY MISSING

B.)The costB.)The cost 31,282,859 insurance industry31,282,859 insurance industry Home owner settlement 93,118Home owner settlement 93,118

C.) FACTSC.) FACTS # Of homes destroyed# Of homes destroyed Churches damagedChurches damaged

D.) FEMA response to Hurricane KatrinaD.) FEMA response to Hurricane Katrina Fema would not approve people for boatsFema would not approve people for boats FEMA didn’t want to help out muchFEMA didn’t want to help out much

Deaths of hurricane Katrina

1,300 bodies found death toll is clearly higher

Deaths Of Hurricane KatrinaDeaths Of Hurricane Katrina

• No one is sure how many people died there are still many people missing

The Cost Of Hurricane The Cost Of Hurricane KatrinaKatrina

• 31,282,859 31,282,859 insurance insurance industry industry contributions to contributions to republican republican campaigns ands campaigns ands PAC’s for 2004 PAC’s for 2004 and 2006and 2006

The Cost Of Hurricane Katrina

•Home owners settlement by Feb.. 2006 claim for flood damage 93,118

Facts About Hurricane Katrina

Number of home destroyed by breeches in federally desugned and founded by levees and hot covered under federal housing plan :200,000

Facts About Hurricane Katrina

•The number of churches damaged or destroyed approximantly:900

FEMA Response To Hurricane Katrina Its told that from FEMA rejected a

request by Louisiana department of wildfire for rubber boats to rescue victims

FEMA Response To Hurricane FEMA Response To Hurricane KatrinaKatrina

►FEMA e-mail dated sept.1 indicating FEMA e-mail dated sept.1 indicating the agency was pulling its search and the agency was pulling its search and rescue task force in Louisianarescue task force in Louisiana

Pictures from after effect of hurricane Pictures from after effect of hurricane KatrinaKatrina

Troops from Task Force Troops from Task Force All American and local All American and local law enforcement law enforcement attempt to move a house attempt to move a house from the middle of a from the middle of a flooded roadflooded road

Rescue Task Force Rescue Task Force members search houses members search houses with their rescue dogs with their rescue dogs

in neighborhoodsin neighborhoods

PEOPLE PEOPLE TRAPPED IN TRAPPED IN HURRICANE HURRICANE KATRINAKATRINA

DAMAGE

• The Mississippi Gulf Coast bore the brunt of Hurricane Katrina. The three coastal counties of Mississippi, populated by about 400,000 people (the population of New Orleans), had been direct witness to one of natures most destructive events. Katrina's nearly 30-foot plus storm surge along the Mississippi Gulf Coast was the most extensive, as well as the highest, in the documented history of the United States

DAMAGEDAMAGE

This destroyed neighborhood in East Biloxi was This destroyed neighborhood in East Biloxi was located away from both the coastline and located away from both the coastline and Biloxi's Back Bay, and like most areas on the Biloxi's Back Bay, and like most areas on the Mississippi Gulf Coast above sea level Mississippi Gulf Coast above sea level

For most Coast residents Hurricane Camille was the benchmark against which all other storms were measured. In the minds of many there was a feeling that at some time another storm would come that was

the equal or worse than Camille

BEFORE AND AFTERBEFORE AND AFTER

the photo on the left, the photo on the left, taken in 1998, notice the taken in 1998, notice the pier, pier house, and the pier, pier house, and the antebellum house. The antebellum house. The photo on the right shows photo on the right shows the same location on the same location on August 31, 2005, two days August 31, 2005, two days after Hurricane Katrina after Hurricane Katrina made landfall.made landfall.

THE EYE OF HURRICANE THE EYE OF HURRICANE KATRINAKATRINA

Maximum height of the storm surge above each grid cell Maximum height of the storm surge above each grid cell in NOAA's SLOSH model for Hurricane Katrina of 2005. in NOAA's SLOSH model for Hurricane Katrina of 2005. This image does not show the height above mean sea This image does not show the height above mean sea level of the surge, but rather how high the surge was level of the surge, but rather how high the surge was above the surface. above the surface.

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