Hurricane Katrina Evaluation

Hurricane Katrina started a tropical depression on August 23rd, 2005. On August 27th, President George W. Bush declared a state of emergency for the states of Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi. By August 28th, Katrina become a Category 5 hurricane. However, when Katrina made landfall in Louisiana on August 29th, 2005, it was a weakened Category 3 hurricane. As Katrina made landfall, the levees in the greater New Orleans area began to fail causing large amounts of water to begin flooding the city. With the flooding of the city, came the communication failures causing a lack of communication throughout the city. As Katrina passed, the failure of the levees, caused many residents who did not evacuate to become strand waiting for help.. Many
A risk situation is acknowledging there can be issues when having a large metropolitan city underneath sea level that is hit by tropical storms and hurricanes. A disaster is events caused a disaster cause sudden and serious events that disrupt normal routines. A crisis is a series of events affects the stability, health or wellbeing of community at large. For example, many citizens of New Orleans were stranded in a city with little supplies and no way to get
Crisis Communication Evaluation 1. A precrisis is prevention, detection, and preparation. A crisis event is recognizing a crisis and containing it. A post crisis is trying to repair damage that the crisis has caused. 2. An example of what community leaders did wrong was in the post crisis stage in New Orleans is began playing the blame game amongst each other when they should have been trying to work together to solve the problems that arose from the crisis. 3. The purpose of the Hurricane Pam exercise was to create an action plan for an event similar to a Hurricane like Katrina. The exercise was unsuccessful because it was not completed. The type of risk communication that should have been in place is a completed report from experts for events like Katrina. 4. A reason that argue for precrisis activities is that events can happen without warning. Precrisis activities save lives. A reason against precrisis activities is that they take up time and resources that many organizations do not have. 5. The communication system broke down hours after Hurricane Katrina because of power failures and lack of backup