Elin Schwantes Drowned City Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans
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- Girls we need to go right now a hurricane katrina can hit soon lets drive as far as we can before it hit
- People that are fortunate to have a car are jamming freeway roads,anything that can be used to keep there family safe.
- Go faster I don't want to get caught in the storm
- I am going to miss New Orleans
- The fishing town evryone left to find the safety of children,pets and there family
- August 25, 2005, unremarkable wind leaves Africa and draws energy from the warm Atlantic growing in size as it heads for the Americas. Then becomes a tropical storm. Miami Flordia gives the name Katrina. Katrina slashes through Flordia as a category one the lowest but still kills six people. Katrina comes through the gull of Mexico on the 26 of August as a category five 155mph wind and was in the path of New Orleans Louisiana.
- Water from waves are over flowing levees(a baricade that makes water from going were we dont want it to) can be removed by the cite huge pumps but brooken levees means flooing more then the pumps can handle.
- On August 26, 2005, sirens bull horns church sermons radio, and tv all sounded the alarm many of the residents in New Orleans and the suburbs evacuated 80% of the 1.2 million people leaving.200,000 staying in harm's way.
- There is still work to be done but progress has been made by cleaning up this city after the hurricane.
- Hurricane Katrina crashes ashore at 6:10 am On August 29, 2005, as a category three, still, a monster.No one dies everyone has evacuated Buras Louisiana a fishing town.
- Some people did not return to New Orleans homes are still Abandoned but the city has recoverd since that day
- I am glad that you came back to New Orleans
- I am glad you came back too
- Along the coastline of Mississippi, a twenty-seven-foot high storm surge floods six miles overland and twelve miles up waterways two hundred and thirty-one people lose their lives in Alabama homes are destroyed In New Orleans water rises people that did stay clime on to the roofs to not drown. At an oil, refiner tank is smashed by rushing water 1.1 million gallons of crude oil does into the water
- Four months later over 1,000 people lost their lives in Katrina the Red Cross alone shelters 142,000 people in five hundred shelters across twelve states. On October 2 2005 New Orleans in finally dry.
- The city didn't snap back till 2012 only 80% of residents in New Orleans came back One ruined neighborhood in the lower ninth ward was overgrown with weeds and plants only 15% of its residents came back after Katrina.
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