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9/11
September 11, 2001 was a day that no one will ever forget. It was the day the planes hit the twin towers. On September 11, 2001, 19 militants associated with the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda hijacked four airliners and carried out suicide attacks against targets in the United States. Two of the planes were flown into the towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, a third plane hit the Pentagon just outside Washington, D.C., and the fourth plane crashed in a field in Pennsylvania. -
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I wish i could've been at 9/11 so that i could warn the people that the planes were coming and the government could ready their jets to help shoot them down before they hit the towers and the pentagon. If i did the twin towers might still be standing to this day. I would try to stop and convince them to ready their jets, but i doubt they would. They would think i'm crazy that i wouldn't now what was going to happen but i do. If they didn't i don't know if i would be able to convince them. -
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Because of this tragic event, we now have better flight security. We have better security in our bigger cities. That way we can prevent this from happening again. Because no one wants this to happen again. If it did happen again we would up our security again, but it's not worth the people's lives. -
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No one will ever forget this event because it is so significant. It is very important, and many people lost their lives due to the two planes that hit the twin towers, 2996 lost their lives. More than 400 of them were police officers and firefighters. Once the planes crashed into the towers everyone heard about it, no matter where they live. -
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This event is important because it is the biggest hurricane in U.S. history. It has caused hundreds of thousands of people in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama to be homeless. It destroyed over a hundred thousand homes. It caused the government to spend a lot of money, making us even deeper in debt. Experts estimate that Katrina caused more than $100 billion in damage. Easily making it the most expensive hurricane in U.S. history.
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The U.S. has spent a lot of money towards fixing the homes that were destroyed in the hurricane. About 80 percent of New Orleans was under water. By nightfall about 80 percent of the city's population was evacuated. New Orleans isn't a small city either, and the hurricane forced 80 percent of their population out of the city because the flooding was so bad. -
Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina was the costliest hurricane in U.S. history. It cost us about 108 billion dollars total. 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 Saffir Simpson Hurricane Scale, it brought sustained winds of 100–140 miles per hour and stretched some 400 miles across. Hundreds of thousands of people in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama were displaced from their homes. -
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I wish i could've been there so i could warn the people who lived in the cities that would be flooded so they could be evacuated before anyone died. The hurricane killed about 2000 people and affected about 90,000 square miles of the U.S. Many people inside this 90,000 miles were left homeless or even dead.