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key facts
the death toll for it was 12,000 and over 500,000 buildings were damaged -
Facts
Hurricane Katrina was a powerful and deadly storm. Katrina is the costliest storm and the third deadliest storm in U.S. history. Based on the size of the area impacted and the number of people affected, Katrina was one of the largest natural disasters in the history of the United States. The effects of Katrina on the costal communities of Louisiana and Mississippi and the city of New Orleans can still be clearly seen 5 years after the storm made landfall -
evacuation order placed
On August 26, the state of Mississippi activated its National Guard in preparation for the storm's landfall. Additionally, the state government activated its Emergency Operations Center the next day, and local governments began issuing evacuation orders. On August 28, 11 counties and cities issued evacuation orders, a number which increased to 41 counties and 61 cities by the following morning. -
mississippi
More than one million people in Mississippi were affected, and almost 6 months later, the extent of the devastation in Mississippi was still described as "staggering" in USA Today on February 16, 2006 "The Mississippi Gulf Coast has been devastated. The extent of the devastation in Mississippi is also staggering. Since Katrina hit, more than half a million people in Mississippi have applied for assistance from FEMA. -
Lousiana
On August 29, Hurricane Katrina made landfall near Buras-Triumph, Louisiana with 125 mph (205 km/h) winds, as a strong Category 3 storm. However, as it had only just weakened from Category 4 strength and the radius of maximum winds was large, it is possible that sustained winds of Category 4 strength briefly impacted extreme southeastern Louisiana. Although the storm surge to the east of the path of the eye in Mississippi was higher, a very significant surge affected the Louisiana coast. -
New Orleans
New Orleans was the worst hit because there was a lot of poverty in that area and so the evacuation was slow and the American governmments response was very slow that people started starving in the temporary shelter which was the super dome that was meant to withstand a windspeed of 200mph -
Responses
This was something that peope wanted to help out on and and people at walmart started helping before the government did and charitys like the red cross and the salvation army were preparing for it, and people had to ask for help at one point. -
Conseqences
The main consiquences of hurricane katrina were that there was whide spread flooding and starvation with people in temporary shelter running out of food and supplies leaving many people homeless and the people who had died in the storm. -
bush takes blame
When there was whide spread people with no homes or supplies bush says he, is too blame that he should of forced the evacuation instead of advising it
