Hurricane Katrina Flashcards
1
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Background info
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- August 2005
- cat 5 with wind speeds of up to 280km/h
2
Q
Primary impacts
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- 1836 killed
- 300,000 houses destroyed
- 80% of New Orleans flooded
3
Q
Secondary impacts
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-230,000 jobs lost
- total damage of 300 billion
- 500 thousand lived there before and only 200 returned
- over 1 million refugees
4
Q
Responses
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-advanced warnings and state of emergency declared
- people used superdome but roof destroyed and conditions AWFUL
- 25,000 used Houston astrodome which was better
- government criticised as 25% of the population had no car so couldn’t evacuate
