houses. The violence reached a climatic rate after Katrina. Now, the city is under recovery and still progressing in the movement (Mid-City Snapshot 1). Mid-City is located at the center of New Orleans, mid-way between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain. Mid-City is where the French and Spanish of New Orleans combine. Mid-city divides uptown from downtown. Unlike, every other neighborhood Mid-City is unique. Mid-city consist of the 3rd ward, 4th ward, some parts of the 7th ward and some parts
to the inadequate repair and maintenance failure, incompletion of the levee system, and engineering designs based on outdated scientific data. New Orleans on average lies 6 feet below sea level. It’s bordered by the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain on two sides. Those bodies of water ultimately feed into the Gulf of Mexico, which lies less than 100 miles from New Orleans. Besides being surrounded by water, the city is also marbled with canals and bayous that are essential to the city’s
The historical event of Hurricane Katrina, a category three hurricane with winds ranging from 111-130 mph, in August 2005 revealed major structural failures in the levee systems of New Orleans. Though not all structural failures are as catastrophic, the breeched levees led to loss of life, homes, businesses, highways, and left a trail of destruction that is still being repaired today. The result of this failure led to lawsuits, conspiracy theories, and court cases. Hurricane Katrina had a major
The day my worst fears came to life. I never thought I would live to see the day I couldn’t get back to my home within in a few days. August 27, 2005, was the last day that I would ever live in Louisiana again. Maria Nunez lived in Louisiana for more than forty years and have gone through some major hurricanes in her life. Nunez just arrived a few years earlier to New Orleans in 1965 when hurricane Betsy made landfall. That was her first major hurricane that she lived through, she stated “In my
The Interstate Highway System also known as "National System of Interstate and Defense Highways" is a large-scale system. It has been development and perfected in the 20th Century. This large-scaled system was developed in the efforts of making transportation safer, and more efficient for people driving throughout the United States. Hughes presents phases of development for technological systems which include invention, development, innovation, technology transfer, technological style, growth and
distance. This fairly inexpensive bridge, in comparison to others, serves mainly as a highway overpass for trains and cars. If thought out perfectly, the beam bridge can span miles long, but only if there are enough beams to support it. The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway in Louisiana is almost 24 miles l... ... middle of paper ... ... cable-stayed bridges, the cables come up to support the towers, which then carry the load. There are two main different ways of arranging the cables for the cable-stayed