Hurricane Katrina (C.S)

Question 1

HIC Tropical storm case study

Answer 1

Hurricane Katrina

• August 2005
• South East USA
• Cost 300 billion

Question 2

primary impacts of hurricane Katrina

Answer 2

• 2000 killed
• 300,000 destroyed
• 3 mill without electricity
• buildings and bridges collapse

Question 3

secondary impacts of hurricane Katrina

Answer 3

• thousands homeless
• 250,000 jobs lost (businesses destroyed)
• water supplies polluted with sewage and dead bodies

Question 4

Responses to hurricane Katrina

Answer 4

• homeless in sports stadiums (fights broke out as conditions intolerable)
• Looting
• Flood defences failed, trapped flood water so increased the damage