Life After Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina
Introduction
Did you know that 705 people are still missing after Hurricane Katrina took place? Hurricane Katrina was a fierce hurricane that hit the Gulf Coast of the United States.
Time
Hurricane Katrina lasted for days. It originally formed on the south eastern part of the Bahamas on August 23,2005 according to, Kim Ann Zimmermann, an author of live Science. Hurricane Katrina then made its way to the southern parts of Florida as a category one hurricane on August 25,2005. On August 26,2005 Katrina re-intensified into a hurricane and then became a category five on August 26th according to Zimmermann. It then weakened to a category three before it made landfall along the Louisiana-Mississippi border. Hurricanes form over warm oceans near the equator. The warm, moist air rises up from the ocean surface causing an area of low air pressure. According to a NASA Official, Kirsten Erickson, air from the high pressure begins to push into the low pressure and the “new” air becomes warm and moist, too. The warmed moist air rises and cools off then the water in the air forms clouds. According to Erickson, the systems of clouds and wind spins and grows, fed by the oceans heat. The storm begins to rotate faster and faster forming the eye which is located in the center of the hurricane. The Hurricane is fed by the oceans heat so once It hits land it’s not as powerful. http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/hurricanes/en/ …show more content…
http://www.livescience.com/22522-hurricane-katrina-facts.html
Facts and Stats
Hurricane Katrina was the third largest and strongest hurricane to ever hit in the U.S.
According to the author of Do Something the levees in New Orleans were designed for a category three hurricane but Katrina ranked as a category five. There were many deaths involved with Hurricane Katrina. According to CNN, 2 people died in AL., 14 in Florida, 2 in GA, 1,577 in LA, and 238 in Ms. https://www.dosomething.org/us/facts/11-facts-about-hurricane-katrina
http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/23/us/hurricane-katrina-statistics-fast-facts/index.html
Effects of Disaster
Hurricane Katrina left tons of destruction behind. Thousands of homes and businesses were destroyed from Katrina. It was a huge impact on New Orleans than the other states it hit. 80% of New Orleans was flooded due to the fact that the levees collapsed. According to The Data Center New Orleans’s population decreased. It fell from 484,674 before Katrina (April 2000) to an estimated 230,172 after Katrina (July 2006). http://www.datacenterresearch.org/data-resources/katrina/facts-for-impact/ https://www.dosomething.org/us/facts/11-facts-about-hurricane-katrina
Conclusion
Do you think the 750 people that’s missing is still living in another state or town 10 years after this event took place or do you think they are dead somewhere wherever they were located when the storm happened? Hurricane Katrina was a violent storm that swept over parts of the gulf coast.
Introduction
Did you know that 705 people are still missing after Hurricane Katrina took place? Hurricane Katrina was a fierce hurricane that hit the Gulf Coast of the United States.
Time
Hurricane Katrina lasted for days. It originally formed on the south eastern part of the Bahamas on August 23,2005 according to, Kim Ann Zimmermann, an author of live Science. Hurricane Katrina then made its way to the southern parts of Florida as a category one hurricane on August 25,2005. On August 26,2005 Katrina re-intensified into a hurricane and then became a category five on August 26th according to Zimmermann. It then weakened to a category three before it made landfall along the Louisiana-Mississippi border. Hurricanes form over warm oceans near the equator. The warm, moist air rises up from the ocean surface causing an area of low air pressure. According to a NASA Official, Kirsten Erickson, air from the high pressure begins to push into the low pressure and the “new” air becomes warm and moist, too. The warmed moist air rises and cools off then the water in the air forms clouds. According to Erickson, the systems of clouds and wind spins and grows, fed by the oceans heat. The storm begins to rotate faster and faster forming the eye which is located in the center of the hurricane. The Hurricane is fed by the oceans heat so once It hits land it’s not as powerful. http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/hurricanes/en/ …show more content…
http://www.livescience.com/22522-hurricane-katrina-facts.html
Facts and Stats
Hurricane Katrina was the third largest and strongest hurricane to ever hit in the U.S.
According to the author of Do Something the levees in New Orleans were designed for a category three hurricane but Katrina ranked as a category five. There were many deaths involved with Hurricane Katrina. According to CNN, 2 people died in AL., 14 in Florida, 2 in GA, 1,577 in LA, and 238 in Ms. https://www.dosomething.org/us/facts/11-facts-about-hurricane-katrina
http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/23/us/hurricane-katrina-statistics-fast-facts/index.html
Effects of Disaster
Hurricane Katrina left tons of destruction behind. Thousands of homes and businesses were destroyed from Katrina. It was a huge impact on New Orleans than the other states it hit. 80% of New Orleans was flooded due to the fact that the levees collapsed. According to The Data Center New Orleans’s population decreased. It fell from 484,674 before Katrina (April 2000) to an estimated 230,172 after Katrina (July 2006). http://www.datacenterresearch.org/data-resources/katrina/facts-for-impact/ https://www.dosomething.org/us/facts/11-facts-about-hurricane-katrina
Conclusion
Do you think the 750 people that’s missing is still living in another state or town 10 years after this event took place or do you think they are dead somewhere wherever they were located when the storm happened? Hurricane Katrina was a violent storm that swept over parts of the gulf coast.