Hurricane Katrina
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Tropical Storm Katrina [the early days]
Katrina’s Path
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Hurricane Katrina to hit New Orleans?
• NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- A solemn New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin ordered evacuations Sunday as his city faced its worst fear -- the threat of a direct hit from a major hurricane that could swamp the low-lying city.
August 28, 2005
Katrina, Satellite Image
Evacuating Before the Hurricane HitsDiamond Fowler of California drags her bag, as she and her family walk
to the Louisiana Superdome Sunday [August 28, 2005].
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Video “Worst Case Scenario”
NOAA HURRICANE HUNTER PILOT CAPTURES KATRINA AT HER
MEANESTSept. 1, 2005 — NOAA hurricane hunter aircraft
conducted ten long flights into and around the eye of Hurricane Katrina. Lt. Mike Silah got to see Hurricane Katrina up close and personal, especially when she was an extremely dangerous Category Five storm in the Gulf of Mexico. The day before the powerful and destructive storm made landfall on the USA Gulf Coast, Silah snapped a series of images capturing the eyewall of Katrina.
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Eyewall on August 28, 2005, a day before it hit the U.S. Gulf Coast
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Swirling clouds of the eyewall at Category 5.
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The eyewall of Katrina [Category 5]; note the swirling clouds.
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August 29, 2005Katrina hits New Orleans
Canal Street in New Orleans is empty except for the debris of thrown trees as Hurricane Katrina pounds the Crescent City on Monday, Aug. 29, 2005.
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• Floodwaters surround a car in Uptown New Orleans early Monday, Aug. 29, 2005 as high winds and rain batter the Louisiana coast as Hurricane Katrina makes landfall. AP/Dave Martin
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• Blair Quintana, right, and Patrick Lampano seek shelter in a doorway in the French Quarter of New Orleans as Hurricane Katrina pounds the Crescent City on Monday, Aug. 29, 2005. AP/Dave Martin
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• The waters of Lake Pontchartrain surge over a road early Monday, Aug. 29, 2005 in Lacombe, La., as Hurricane Katrina moved ashore about 100 miles away. AP Photo/Mari Darr-Welch
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• A downed tree rests on a truck as winds from Hurricane Katrina began to increase Monday, Aug. 29, 2005 in Lacombe, La. AP Photo/Mari Darr-Welch
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• Hurricane Katrina pounds New Orleans early Monday, Aug. 29, 2005. St. Louis Cemetery is in the foreground. AP Photo/Dave Martin
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• High winds and rain pound the Louisiana Superdome as Hurricane Katrina makes landfall along the Louisiana coast on Monday, Aug. 29, 2005. Officials report that part of the roof of the Superdome, which is housing some 10,000 evacuees, is leaking. AP Photo/Dave Martin
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Charles Anslum rides his bike through
downtown Morgan City, La., as Hurricane Katrina makes landfall
Monday, Aug. 29, 2005.
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Phillip
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• Waves crash against a boat washed onto Highway 80 as Hurricane Katrina hits the Gulf Coast Monday, Aug. 29, 2005 in Gulfport, Miss. AP Photo/John Bazemore
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• Valence St. in Uptown New Orleans, following Katrina. Chris Mercadel/New Orleans
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• Cadiz St. in Uptown New Orleans, following Katrina. Chris Mercadel/New Orleans
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• A SUV is surrounded by downed trees in Walker. Andrew Gross
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• Hurricane Katrina flooded yards on Hastings Street in Metairie. Alice Keife
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• New Orleans residents are rescued by helicopter from the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2005 in New Orleans. AP Photo/David J. Phillip
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Two residents take refuge on their rooftop after the hurricane caused severe flooding in New Orleans.
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Hurricane Damage
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An SUV is crushed by fallen bricks after Hurricane Katrina hit New
Orleans Monday.
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Cars are almost submerged in this parking lot in Mobile, Alabama,
caused by a storm surge.
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Before and After Flooding
Water flows over a levee on the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal in New Orleans, Louisiana, August 30.
Officials say the New Orleans levee system wasn't built to withstand a storm of Katrina's size.
Photograph by Smiley N. Pool/Dallas Morning News/Corbis
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Damage from broken Levees
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• SLIDESHOWS
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New Orleans Before…
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New Orleans After Flooding
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• New Orleans residents wait to be rescued from the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2005 in New Orleans. AP Photo/David J. Phillip
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URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LASunday, Aug. 28, 2005 at 6:56 PM
MOST OF THE AREA WILL BE UNINHABITABLE FOR WEEKS...PERHAPS LONGER. AT LEAST ONE HALF OF WELL CONSTRUCTED HOMES WILL HAVE ROOF AND WALL FAILURE. ALL GABLED ROOFS WILL FAIL...LEAVING THOSE HOMES SEVERELY DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. THE MAJORITY OF INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS WILL BECOME NON FUNCTIONAL. PARTIAL TO COMPLETE WALL AND ROOF FAILURE IS EXPECTED. ALL WOOD FRAMED LOW RISING APARTMENT BUILDINGS WILL BE DESTROYED. CONCRETE BLOCK LOW RISE APARTMENTS WILL SUSTAIN MAJOR DAMAGE...INCLUDING SOME WALL AND ROOF FAILURE. HIGH RISE OFFICE AND APARTMENT BUILDINGS WILL SWAY DANGEROUSLY...A FEW TO THE POINT OF TOTAL COLLAPSE.
Urgent
Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath.
An interdisciplinary, critical inquiry.
Landfall
The Water is Rising
Flooding the French Quarter
A city built below sea level is sustained by a complex system of dams serving as a buffer against storm surges and the wetlands of the Mississippi Delta.
Boats travel flooded streets
New Orleans Superdome
Camping on I-10
Oil slicks in the water
Leaving the Superdome
Walking out on I-10
Is this the USA?
School buses flooded in New Orleans
Boat Jam on the road
Stranded on Rooftops
Louisiana State Troops
Evacuation
To the helicopters
U. S. N. S. Comfort
Rooftop Rescues Continue
The Pets• Animal rescues• Animal rights• Animal protection
groups
Thank you for rescuing me!
Jane Garrison of the Humane Society United States is licked by a rescued dog at the Broadmoor neighborhood of New Orleans, September 9, 2005.
Searching for survivors
Foreign Aid to U.S.Members of the Mexican Navy help distribute water
U.S. Navy sailors assigned to the amphibious assault ship USS Bataan and Mexican marines carry a log as they remove debris
Mexico feeds evacuees in San Antonio
Mexican soldiers prepare food as part of the Hurricane Katrina relief effort for the several thousand evacuees housed at a former United States Air Force base in San Antonio, Texas, September 9, 2005. The Mexican government sent a convoy of unarmed soldiers with 50 trucks that arrived in Texas September 8. The unit will be serving three meals a day to the evacuees for at least the next 20 days. REUTERS/Jeff Mitchell
Why did New Orleans flood?
• Scientific studies - geographical, climatological and geological facts
• Government action and inaction
• Economics
What are the environmental issues? • Flood control
• EPA - Pollution – toxic floodwaters
• Coastal erosion
• Fossil Fuels
• Global Warming
• Natural resources
• Waterways
• Wildlife and fisheries
• Agriculture, fishing, shrimping, oyster beds
Global Impact? Global Response
• How far-reaching is the impact of Katrina?
• Explore the extent of the impact within the U.S. and globally.
• Explore the response in the U.S. and globally.
Technology
• What role did technology play in this event, before and after the hurricane?
• What role will it play in making changes?
