Geography
What measures have been taken to improve the Levee system and costal protection?
What is reinforcing and increasing the height of levees, improving pumping systems and adding armoring like cellular confinement or concrete.
What were conditions for people trapped in the city?
They were stuck in their homes without water, food, or medicine?
What were the water depths?
What is reaching up to 20-28 ft?
a storm with a violent wind, in particular a tropical cyclone
What is a Hurricane?
What is the role of climate change in the increasing intensity of hurricanes?
What challenges did the evacuees and survivors face?
What is securing basic survival needs, managing physical and mental health issues, and dealing with logical disruptions?
What category hurricane is Katrina?
What is Category 5?
the action of evacuating a person or a place.
What is Evacuation?
How much of New Orleans was flooded?
What is 80%?
How many casualties were there from Hurricane Katrina?
What is 1,400?
What were the estimate amount of money in total damages from Hurricane Katrina?
What is over $125 billion, or over $200 billion when adjusted to inflation.
a human-made barrier, often an earthen embankment, built along a river or coastline to control or prevent flooding
What is Levee?
Where did Katrina first form?
What is The Bahamas?
Why did communication systems break down after the storm?
What is due to a combination of widespread infrastructure damage, sustained power outages in the inability of different agencies to communicate with each other?
What were Hurricane Katrinas maximum wind speeds?
What is 174 mph ?
What is Storm Surge?
Why did the levees fail?
What is poor construction, and a storm surge that exceeded the levees design capacity?
How many people were left homeless?
How did organizations respond to the disaster?
What is They were marked by significant failures and situational awareness followed by a massive multi-billion dollar long term recover effort?
a person or thing badly affected by an event or situation.
what is casualty?