Katrina - Hurricane Flashcards
1
Q
Where?
A
New Orleans, USA
2
Q
Date?
A
Monday 29th August 2005
3
Q
Stormsurge
A
15ft
4
Q
Track?
A
- Developed from tropic Cancer, Bahamas
5
Q
Category?
A
- 5
6
Q
Windspeed?
A
- Over 280 - 345km/hr
7
Q
Vulnerability
A
- 7/10 ft below sea-level
- Category 3 levees
- Evacuation plan drawn up 19h before
- Poor people couldn’t evacuate
8
Q
Impacts
A
- 110,000 homes flooded
- 1,833 people died
- 1.5 million fled
- Looters
- 90% deaths - storm surge
- Oil rigs damaged (gulf of mexico) = oil price increase
- French quarter damaged = tourism
- 75% land under water = flood system breached
9
Q
Responses
A
- Superdome shelter = 26,000 people - rapes
- Slow response
- Helicopters dropped off large sandbags by the levee where it has split to stop water from entering
- Federal emergency management agency hand out debit cards = $2000 per household
- Extra army brought into to tackle looting
- 100s firefighters from other cities volunteered to help but reenrolled to Atlanta = sat through 2 days of presentation before helping out
- Charities collected = more than $4 billion
- Sophisticated monitoring system to predict.
