Louisiana Hurricane Research Paper

Death and destruction brought from the Bahamas all the way past Mississippi’s western border, all because of Hurricane Katrina. This hurricane was one of the deadliest the United States has ever experienced. Hurricane Katrina had a horrid impact on the southern US, some areas much worse than others. Katrina, being the third deadliest hurricane in US history, took the lives of around two-hundred-thirty people from Mississippi, fourteen from Florida, and one thousand-five hundred from Louisiana. It was estimated that Katrina took the lives of one-thousand-eight-hundred people in the US. It was also estimated that around one-and-one-half million people were evacuated from New Orleans before the storm blasted its way into the town. One-hundred-thousand people remained in the town and only ten-thousand took shelter in the superdome. The flooding and widespread destruction of Katrina slowed rescue and aid efforts for days which

New Orleans was the most damaged town in Louisiana, which was the most damaged state. The water was stuck in the city because the pump stations were disabled by the storm which caused most of New Orleans to be submerged. New Orleans’s Ninth Ward was one of the areas hit hardest by Katrina. The market had become the heart of the community, elderly and young alike mourning and communing outside. This deadly storm developed near the Bahamas as a small storm at first. Once the storm converted into a hurricane, it traveled southwest and then changed course to travel northwest. Katrina,when reaching the United States, traveled through part of Florida, southern Mississippi, and then Louisiana. The storm finally came to an end not too far past the Mississippi-Louisiana border. Hurricane Katrina was the third deadliest as well as the costliest hurricane the US has ever seen. We may still be raising money to help repair some areas of the United States