Hurricane Katrina: Analyzing a Mega-Disaster Reference library
Arjen Boin, Christer Brown, and James A. Richardson
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Crisis Analysis
... Katrina: Analyzing a Mega-Disaster Introduction: Assessing the Response to Hurricane Katrina Hurricane Katrina reached the Louisiana coast in the early morning of Monday, August 29, 2005 . Besides Louisiana, the hurricane caused widespread flooding and wind damage in Alabama and Mississippi. The storm killed around 1,500 people (estimates vary) across the region. The damage to homes, critical infrastructures, and the environment was immense and in some respects even historic. Hurricane Katrina was by all accounts a mega-disaster: the single most...
Hurricane Katrina Reference library
Elizabeth Skilton
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Social History
... Katrina Hurricane Katrina arguably is the most culturally significant hurricane in U.S history. Although Katrina was not the most powerful storm ever to hit the country, its aftermath proved more influential than the storm’s strength itself. As a result, the memory of Katrina is often a remembrance both of the hurricane itself and of the six-month period immediately following it. Katrina first made landfall in Florida as a Category 1 hurricane on 25 August 2005 . After sweeping through the Gulf of Mexico , it built to a Category 5 and eventually...
Hurricane Katrina Quick reference
A Dictionary of Human Geography
... Katrina A large hurricane that severely damaged large tracts of the states of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, and devastated the city of New Orleans on 29 August 2005 . It was the deadliest storm to hit the United States for 77 years, with 1,836 people dying as a result of the hurricane and subsequent floods, and the costliest on record in terms of property damage. The bulk of the deaths occurred due to the storm surge and breaches in flood defences, along with the failure to fully evacuate low-lying vulnerable areas. In the aftermath of the event...
Hurricane Katrina (2005) Quick reference
A Dictionary of World History (3 ed.)
... Katrina ( 2005 ) A hurricane that caused serious flooding in New Orleans. One of the strongest and largest hurricanes seen in the Gulf of Mexico, it caused extensive damage to the Gulf Coast of the USA; but its most serious effect was, on 29 August 2005 , to breach the levees that protected the city of New Orleans, 80% of which lay below sea level. The consequent flooding exceeded the worst expectations. New Orleans ceased to function and had to be completely evacuated, amid chaotic scenes of suffering and lawlessness broadcast worldwide. Over ...
Hurricane Katrina Reference library
Encyclopedia of African American History 1896 to the Present
...Brinkley, Douglas . The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast . New York: William Morrow, 2006. Cooper, Christopher , and Robert Block . Disaster: Hurricane Katrina and the Failure of Homeland Security . New York: Times Books, 2006. Daniels, Ronald J. , Donald F. Kettl , and Howard Kunreuther , eds. On Risk and Disaster: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina . Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. Dyson, Michael Eric . Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster . New York: Basic...
Katrina, Hurricane (29 August 2005) Quick reference
A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (6 ed.)
...Katrina, Hurricane ( 29 August 2005 ) A hurricane which devastated much of New Orleans, and led to the largest US domestic relief effort in history. New Orleans lies mostly below sea level, and is protected from the Mississippi river by a series of levees (river embankments). Owing to decades of chronic under-investment, the levees could only withstand a hurricane up to force three—Hurricane Katrina hit the city at between force four and force five. The levees burst, flooding 80 per cent of the city. Over 75,000 citizens, who had ignored earlier warnings to...
Hurricane Katrina Reference library
Elizabeth Fussell
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in Contemporary Politics, Law, and Social Movements
... Katrina . Hurricane Katrina made New Orleans a destination for Latin American immigrants by creating an intense and highly visible demand for construction workers. The hurricane struck New Orleans on 29 August 2005 , causing the levee system protecting the city to fail, resulting in a flood covering 80 percent of the city. Other parishes in the metropolitan area were also affected, with St. Bernard and Plaquemines suffering near complete inundation, and Jefferson and St. Tammany incurring flood and wind damage. Home and business owners and government...
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