Gulfport, Mississippi

The two media sources I have chosen to use for my disaster is History.com and The Times. My disaster that I have chosen is Hurricane Katrina. Hurricane Katrina hit on August 29th of 2005. Hurricane Katrina hit through Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. Though, this huge tropical storm was formed over the Bahamas. The Times and History.com are alike because they have some of the same facts about Hurricane Katrina. How these two sources differ is because The only had very few pieces about the events

Hurricane Katrina hit the city of Baton Rouge and New Orleans, Louisiana. This storm changed so many lives and families including mines. Honestly this the worst storm I have experienced so far in life. On August 23, 2005, that morning before the storm we had light rain. The New reporters on the television reported that a hurricane was headed out way. No one thought the storm would be serious or harmful as it was. That evening, my mom and I went top Walmart to get groceries and supplies

This hurricane made landfall on August 25,2017 and destroyed homes, killed people, flood the streets, highways. The hurricane killed at least 60 people and damaged about 100,000 homes and about 37,000 homes that are heavily damaged and about 7,000 home that were destroyed, that has lefts many people homeless or had to live somewhere else till their home was rebuilt.”Officials said 37,000 homes were heavily damaged and nearly 7,000 were destroyed, along with thousands more requiring minor repairs

In New Orleans it was predicted several days in advance that there would be a hurricane coming. There was coverage that followed and gave updates on the status of the storm. Many people decided to evacuate before the actual hurricane hit causing the disaster while some stayed with either none or limited supplies to survive with. Unlike many places New Orleans was aware of the damage the hurricane could cause due to having knowledge of their inadequate infrastructure. Hurricane Katarina flooded ¾

Georgraphy Gerren Isaac GEO 1113-71 October 9, 2016 Introduction Hurricane Katrina, one of the intense storms, impacted the coast of the United States. Affecting the central Gulf Coast states of the US; cities such as New Orleans, LA, Mobile, AL, and Gulfport, MS were impacted by the burden of Katrina 's force. The hurricane was so large that the area sustained forceful winds for hours before the storm 's eye reached land on August 29, 2005. Following the hurricane, devastated cities across the Gulf Coast

William Faulkner was a 20th Century American poet, screenwriter, and novelist who won a Nobel Peace prize in Literature in 1949 and was an author of two Pulitzer prizes. He was part of a prominent family in Mississippi that lost its prosperity and power during the Civil War. “In his works William Faulkner used the American South as a microcosm for the universal theme of time…whose reappearing characters grow older and cannot cope with the social change” (Larinde 1). “A Rose for Emily” has an accurate

I believe the principle of federalism didn’t work in the case of hurricane Katrina for the following reasons. Before the storm no one really did anything to prepare. Very little people evacuated like the mayor urged them to. Some people gathered food food and tried to fill up their cars with gas but gas stations started to close down. Even though the President knew that the storm was going to hit, he was on vacation visiting his mother instead of preparing for the storm. The mayor was basically

From mid-August to early September, Houston saw a one in a hundred-year storm, dropping record amounts of rain to the greater Houston area, being the deadliest storm in US history since 1919, and destroyed Houston landscape especially with regards to those that were affected by the copious amounts of flooding due to the reservoir gates being opened. In this essay I’ll cover the history of the construction of these reservoirs and the housing estates built close by, the repercussions of not letting

There was still confusion towards where the people should go and what they were to do. As people returned to their homes, the Governor declared martial law and blocked highways creating curfew, and opened dormitories at the University of Southern Mississippi and rooms at the Robert E. Lee hotel to shelter those who had lost their

Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) to build a control structure that would restrict the flow down the Atchafalaya River to 30% instead of it channeling all of the Mississippi River. The goal of restricting the flow of the Atchafalaya was to maintain the Mississippi River’s current route and prevent the merging of the Atchafalaya and Mississippi River. During the Corps attempts to maintain river control, a large flood threated to destroy the main structure the Corps had created. After the flood occurred