Katrina And Hurricane Katrina Similarities

The New York Times writers explains all the events happening during Harvey’s next landfall in “Harvey Live Updates: Trump Heads to a Flooded Texas”. In case you’ve been living underneath a construction site for your whole life, Harvey made hard landfalls in Corpus Christi and Houston, TX along with other cities in Texas. With hundreds of thousands of people under evacuation orders, shelters in Houston filled to bursting with people who craved some news about the safety of their loved ones and the state of their homes. Parts of the Houston area set a record for rainfall from a single storm anywhere in the continental United States, with a top reading on Tuesday afternoon, since the storm began, of 51.88 inches. Jeffrey Lindner, a meteorologist for the Harris County Flood Control District, said 25 to 30 percent of Harris County's 1,800 square miles of land was flooded.

The 1900 Hurricane in Galveston destroyed a majority of the towns infrastructure and killed a significant amount of the population. One of the main reasons behind the level of devastation was do to the fact that the city was not at all prepared to face a storm as large as the one that hit in 1900, the city had a very low elevation with its highest point being only 9 feet above the sea level, and had very little if any means of protection from Hurricanes(1.). By 1900 Galveston had already been hit with several destructive storms in the past but they were not severe enough for the citizens of Galveston to start making more efforts to curb the potential damage a larger storm could have in the future and thus do to something on a

Harvey known as an apocalyptic storm for many Houstonian’s who have described the scenery and event for that weekend. Many homes, businesses, and schools destroyed causing it to be one of the biggest recovery mission in the nation. A big flare of controversy between the government and the state happened as well. Even with many homes lost and so much sadness spread across south Texas and Houston many texans came together as one.

Harvey made landfall along the coast of Texas. Hurricane Harvey formed quickly. Harvey a category 4 storm with winds around 130 miles per hour. On Thursday, Harvey became a tropical storm. By the following day, Harvey became a category 2 hurricane and strengthened to a category 4 before making landfall in Texas. Harvey feed off the warm waters off the Gulf of Mexico. This provided more fuel to the storm. The storm gained energy and speed as it moved of the gulf warm waters. Hurricane Harvey moved gradually making it worse and giving it additional time to dump devastating amounts of rainfall onto some areas of Texas (Fecht, 2017). According to data provided by Texas State Climatologist John Nielsen-Gammon, Hurricane Harvey produced the largest rainfall of any US hurricane on record. Much of the rain fell in the greater Houston metropolitan area, a low-lying region that has seen rapid growth in recent decades. The result was the largest natural disaster the nation has seen since Hurricane Katrina of 2005, killing at least 70 people, displacing many thousands, and causing damages that are expected to rise above $150 billion (Emanuel,

Natural disasters like hurricanes do not happen every day, but unfortunately, they do happen. A few weeks ago, Hurricane Harvey struck in Houston, Texas and caused serious havoc. Several scientists and weather meteorologists began to compare Hurricane Harvey to Hurricane Katrina, a hurricane 2005 that surrounded areas of Mississippi along with New Orleans. Harvey began in 2017 around the Houston area of Texas. Although, Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Harvey have a twelve-year time difference, they both have various similarities and differences.

Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Katrina Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Harvey were both devastating hurricane that caused the destruction of homes, jobs, and lives. There were many parallels between these two that allowed us to better understand how we should react but there were also many differences which could teach us the same.   The main way these two are similar is how the people affected and the others around them reacted. When Katrina hit New Orleans, a volunteer group was formed. This volunteer group was called the Cajun Navy.

Growing up in a southern state can be such a great and terrifying thing such as the environment. While living in Franklin, la a small town which is populated by only 2,000 people can become quite boring where as South beach Miami, fl is home to 91,000 people with a billion things to do. For instance South Beach has tons of beaches with clear blue water that you can see the bottom floor. As for Franklin the beaches are artificial and man made with dirty trash filled water that's caused by the nasty oil filled plants. During the horrible time of hurricane season both states have to worry about tremendous storms coming through possibly even loosing not just a home but everything. In addition to hurricane their is a great chance of flash flood

While Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Katrina had different impacts on people lives. Katrina's devastations were a result of a failure of government flood protection systems, violent storm surges, a chaotic evacuation plan and an ill- prepared city government. Harvey, on the other hand, has caused massive flooding at a slower pace, unlike Katrina's deadly surge. People had suffered from traumatic event that will seek help finding different ways to cope with their trauma.

Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans at no more than Category 2 strength. According to the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), Hurricane Rita is already a Category 5. I have decided to evacuate the city because our safety in Galveston is being threatened and the strength of Category 5s.

This decrease in intensity as Hurricane Katrina approached the southern United States was a result of the replacement of the storm’s eyewall. As the storm moved from the warm waters of the Loop current in the direction of the shore, rainstorms within Katrina robbed the eye of the storm of moisture. This process caused the replacement of the eye, and the reduction to the category three storm that made landfall in the vicinity of Buras, Louisiana on the morning of August 29, 2005. At this point, Hurricane Katrina’s storm surge was greater than 20 feet high. Though Buras, Louisiana was the location of landfall, Hurricane Katrina’s reach was much more vast: rampaging winds and the destruction of levees only added to the ruin this storm caused (Ahrens & Sampson, 2011).

Hurricane Katrina was a big threat to the coastal areas of Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana, and the governor declared a state of emergency in reaction towards potential destruction the hurricane may fall in New Orleans, a major city in Louisiana. To prepare for the threat of Hurricane Katrina, FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency), was sent to Louisiana to help aid the state. Later, a big disaster befalls in the state of Louisiana, and the governor declared a national evacuation. New Orleans, the heavily populated city, ordered its citizen to evacuate in the Superdome, with food, shelter, and rations being distributed. After the state evacuation was made, there was a shortage of food, water, and operable toilet facilities, thus creating

The hurricane that hit Galveston in 1900 is the deadliest in U.S. history according to Burton, (2012). There was no disaster relief other than the local community, the U.S. Army, and the Red Cross. At least 6000 people lost their lives during the event and that number could be doubled by some accounts. The city of Galveston failed in every emergency preparedness phase. Mitigation plans for a storm surge wall were brought to the attention of the city council, but rejected the idea leaving the city vulnerable to storm surge. The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and fire completely devastated the city. Although earthquakes are not unusual for San Francisco then as they are not today. The city had not prepared for a potential disaster. According to Butler, (2012) Dennis Sullivan the cities Fire Chief ?argued for years that the city was an tinderbox waiting to be struck? his pleas for the city to improve the water distribution system was rejected. Again, without a federal emergency management system the only help was the local community, the Military, and the Red Cross.

Hurricane Katrina resulted in massive loss of life and billions of dollars in property damage. There are many lessons worth learning from this event. Finger pointing started before the event was over. Most of the focus on Hurricane Katrina was on its impact on New Orleans; however, the storm ravaged a much wider area than that. This paper will briefly summarize the event, the impact on the city of New Orleans and the lessons learned to ensure preparedness today.

Hurricane Katrina began as tropical Depression twelve, which formed over the Bahamas on August 23, 2005. On August 24, the storm strengthened and became known as Tropical Storm Katrina, the 11th named storm of the 2005 hurricane season. A few hours before making landfall in Florida on August 25, Tropical storm Katrina was upgraded to Hurricane Katrina (Category1, 74mph winds). An analysis by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA’s) climate prediction center

On August 29, 2005, hurricane Katrina made landfall in Louisiana as a category three storm and brought with it some of the most catastrophic effects that any hurricane has ever left behind. Twenty foot surges of flood water washed into New Orleans after the levees broke, and ended up flooding over 80% of the city. It was now in the hands of the United States government to help the millions of displaced Americans find proper shelter, food, water, and services that were required for their recovery.