you let lose. Would you consider Mardi Gras to be an cultural icon? * Tyina McKenzie-I really don’t see why Mardi Gras is so big on its culture. * Melvin Davis -don’t know what that is…is that a person is some are sort. * Yeah for Louisiana * Yeah it’s supposed to be * Brianna thruman-Yeah that’s is all I no. * Tuna Bennett- yeah because it’s a big deal. * Debery tayolr-no because not a lot of people know about it. When is mardi gras celebrated? * Katrina-Shrugs
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had to pay almost 8 billion dollars to businesses and families. The spill caused major damage to marine‚ wildlife habitats‚ and to the Gulf’s fishing and tourism industries. Being from Louisiana I seen firsthand the effect the spill had on the gulf coast. Seafood is one of the biggest markets we have in Louisiana and we could not eat‚ buy‚ or sell anything out of the gulf. Skimmer ships‚ floating containment booms‚ anchored barriers‚ sand-filled barricades along shorelines‚ and dispersants were used
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it was obviously named after the city that it made landfall in (Gavelstone).After hitting Texas and Louisiana‚ The storm returned to pass state as a tropical storm. In its tropical storm phase‚ it traveled all the way up to Oklahoma ‚then through the great lakes and st. lawrence and back out into the north atlantic.
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Hurricane Katrina was one of the most devastating events that has ever happened in the U.S History. Katrina started out in the Atlantic Ocean as a small rotation at the beginning of August 20th and in 4 days crossed over the southern tip of Florida. At this point it was considered a category 1 hurricane‚ but it didn’t do to much damage and took approximately 20 lives. Four days later the U.S Government issued an evacuation of the city because the hurricane had grown to a category 3 and predicted
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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
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left France to found a colony on the Gulf of Mexico. Sieur d’Iberville set up a fur trading for originally on the north gulf coast‚ then moved the establishment to Dauphin Island. Once again‚ he moved the fort and created an inland colony near Louisiana. Sieur d’Iberville was in charge of all of France’s responsibilities in the southern portion of the territory. Wen Iberville died in 1706 the land under his jurisdiction was given to ho brother‚ Jean Baptiste de Moyen Sieur de Beinville. Beinville
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year. Upstream dams and levees built to tame Mississippi River floods and ease shipping have starved the delta downstream of sediments and nutrients‚ causing wetlands that once buffered the city against storm-driven seas to sink beneath the waves. Louisiana has lost 1‚900 square miles of coastal lands since the 1930s; Katrina and Hurricane Rita together took out 217 square miles‚ putting the city that much closer to the open Gulf. Most ominous of all‚ global warming is raising the Gulf faster than at
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strengthening rapidly in the Gulf of Mexico and becoming one of the strongest hurricanes ever recorded in the Gulf. The storm weakened considerably before making its second landfall as a Category 3 storm on the morning of August 29th in southeast Louisiana. (source
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days/months/years afterwards: they impact on the social‚ environmental and economic stature of an area. This is evident when comparing two of the most notable tropical revolving storms in the last decade. Hurricane Katrina hit the MEDC coast of Louisiana and the Mississippi in the form of a category 5 storm and the category 4 cyclone Nargis hit the LEDC nation‚ Burma‚ particularly the Irrawaddy delta. Despite similar magnitudes the impacts of these two tropical revolving storms varied-
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water" (12a). With all this information being known a while back‚ why wasn’t anything being done to change and make New Orleans secure from all the risks from hurricanes? The answer to this is poor leaders and poor administrators in New Orleans and Louisiana. Plenty of hurricanes in the past have hit New Orleans. And plenty of them have
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