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Early in the morning on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast of the United States. When the storm made landfall, it had a Category 3 rating on the Simpson Hurricane Scale it brought sustained winds of about 140 miles per hour and stretched some about 400 miles across. The storm itself did a great deal of damage, but its aftermath was catastrophic. Levee breaches led to massive flooding, and many people charged that the federal government was slow to meet the needs of the people affected by the storm. Hundreds of thousands of people in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama were displaced from their homes, and experts estimate that Katrina caused more than $100 billion in damage.
Many people acted heroically in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The Coast Guard, for instance, rescued some 35,000 people in New Orleans alone, and many ordinary citizens commandeered boats, offered food and shelter, and did whatever else they could to help their neighbors. Yet the government–particularly the federal government–seemed unprepared for the disaster. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) took days to establish operations in New Orleans, and even then did not
Citations:
History.com Staff. “Hurricane Katrina.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 2009, www.history.com/topics/hurricane-katrina.
(Some information was from my families experiences)
t seem to have a sound plan of action. needed. Katrina had left in her wake what one reporter called a “total disaster zone” where people were “getting absolutely desperate.”