2014 Annotated Bibliography Collins, Susan M., Senator. Hurricane Katrina: A Nation Still Unprepared: Special Report of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, Together with Additional Views. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 2006. Web. Susan Collins states on her review that the United States government has learned important lessons from hurricane Katrina. This disaster is a wake up call for the government on ability to plan, prepares for, and responds to national
In the days leading up to Katrina, state government officials hesitated to react (Tkacz, 2006). The countless storms in 2005 prior to Katrina were not as threatening and did not make landfall. With this in mind, there was a lackadaisical response to Katrina. The government leaders waited too late to make a call to evacuate the city of New Orleans. With the public’s assumption of the storm being
August 25th, 2009. Hurricane Katrina swept through New Orleans, Louisiana, flooding the city and destroying establishments. Then, just moments later, Lake Ponchartrain’s levees break and the Ninth Ward of the city is destroyed and many residents are dead. However, the deaths do not stop there. In the days to come, thousands of lives will be lost and the entire city will be in dire need of aid. In order to comprehend what happened and how to move forward from this disaster, it is important to analyze
Introduction On August 29th, 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast of the United States. The storm formed over the Bahamas as a tropical depression on August 23rd. The following day the tropical depression was named Katrina. On August 25th, Hurricane Katrina hits the Florida coast as a Category 1, with winds at 80 mph. The National Hurricane Center officially updates the track of Katrina from Florida to the Mississippi and Alabama coast. At this time, Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco declares
ORIGIN OF KATRINA HURRICANE: Katrina originated over the Bahamas on August 23rd 2005 from the interaction between a tropical wave and the remnants of Tropical Depression Ten. Early the following day, the new depression intensified into Tropical Storm Katrina. The cyclone headed generally westward toward Florida and strengthened into a hurricane only two hours before making landfall Hallandale Beach and Aventura on August 25. After very briefly weakening to a tropical storm, Katrina emerged into the
the disasters, but didn’t have that much success. Ancient History is the foundation of todays’ emergency management progress. Emergency management is the back bone of the government that protects the public health and safety. Emergency management is organized in a matter for local, state, and agencies to assist. In Hurricane Katrina emergency management didn’t
interpersonal, etc.) emerge from structural racism” (Keith and Terry, 1). However, racism in New Orleans was an embodiment of all the aforementioned but was very different in the sense that it was shaped and structured by a natural disaster-Hurricane Katrina. Hurricane Katrina, the biggest natural disaster in the United States, struck New Orleans in 2005. Before that period, who were used as slaves were living together with their masters in a housing system known as the ‘Back-yard Pattern’. This particular
man by the name of Abdulrahman Zeitoun thrust into the life altering events before and after devastating Hurricane Katrina hit the city of New Orleans. Zeitoun is portrayed as an immigrant in the United States who struggles to achieve his goals of creating a better life for himself and his family, yet radical and religious prejudice intervenes. Coupled with the effects that Hurricane Katrina has wrought, Zeitoun faces many challenges throughout the novel. Even after the publication of the novel,
story, Horne talks about the people of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. He describes the actions people made and how they handled and experienced Katrina. Some got out of town, some relied on the Dome, an all-weather temperature controlled coliseum, for safety and then there were some that underestimated Katrina and stayed in their homes. Aware of the hurricane taking place, Fats Domino stayed inside his home like he had past hurricanes. However, by late Monday, Domino was on his roof, helplessly
Global turbulence is anticipated. Competition, instability and uncertainty are constants in a changing world. Organizations face an uncommon and growing number of future disruptions to the status quo and the best laid strategic plans. As history repeats itself, organizations once considered as effective will most likely fail unless currently associated and related risk factors of management and governance models are incorporated into scalable resilience metrics. In order to thrive and prosper in