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Geography Hurricane Katrina, Cyclone Nargis Summary
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1.6 FLASHCARD – CASE STUDIESHURRICANE KATRINA
MAGNITUDE – CATERGORY 3 AT LANDFALL
PLACE – SOUTHEAST USA
DATE – 29TH AUGUST 2006
- THE USA HAS A SOPHISTICATED MONITORING SYSTEM TO PREDICT IF (AND WHERE A HURRICANE) WOULD HIT
- THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTRE IN FLORIDA TRECKS AND PREDICTS HURRICANES USING SATELLITE IMAGES
AND PLANES THAT COLLECT WEATHER DATA ON APPROACHING STORMS.
- THE NHC ISSUED A HURRICANE WARNING ON THE 26TH AUGUSTFOR LOUISIANA, MISSISSIPI AND ALABAMA. IT
CONTINUED TOTRACK THE HURRICANE, UPDATINGTHE GOVERNMENT ON WHERE AND WHEN IT WOULD HIT.
- MISSISSIPI AND LOUISIANA DECLARED STATES OF EMERGENCYAND 70 -80% OF NEW ORLEANS RESIDENTS WERE
EVACUATED BEFORE THE HURRICANE REACHED LAND. THIS REDUCED THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE KILLED BECAUSE
LOTS OF PEOPLE HAD LEFT THE AREAS WHERE THE HURRICANE HIT
- THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS WAS VERY BADLY DAMAGED – FLOOD DEFENCES THAT WERE SUPPOSED TO
PROTECT THE CITY FAILED
- THIS CAUSED WIDESPREAD FLOODING (OVER 80% OF THE CITY WAS UNDERWATER)
- COSTAL HABITATS SUCH AS SEA TURTLE BREEDING BEACHES WERE DAMAGED
- SOME COSTAL CONSERVATION AREAS WERE DESTROYED
- FLOODING DAMAGED OIL REFINERIES IN LOUISIANA CAUSING MASSIVE OIL SPILLS
- MORE THAN 1800 WERE KILLED
- 300,000 HOMES WERE DESTROYED AND HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE WERE MADE HOMELESS
- 3 MILLION PEOPLE WERE LEFT WITHOUT ELECTRICITY
- ROADS WERE DAMAGED AND SOME BRIDGES COLLAPSED
- 230,000 JOBS WERE LOST FROM DAMAGED BUSINESSES
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