Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Hurricane Katrina
- Where?
- East New Orleans, hitting nearby St. Bernard.
- Most people went to high areas or their rooftops to seek refuge.
- When?
- August 29, 2005. By August 31 2005, New Orleans was flooded
- Effects
- Natural Effect: The city leeves broke somewhere. These
breaches were responsible for most of the flooding.
- Economic Effect: In April 2006, The Bush Administration sought
$105 billion dollars for repairs to the town.
- Economic Effect: Hundreds of thousands were left homeless and jobless.
About 600,000 of these people had farming jobs in the town.
- Economic Effect: No paychecks were being cashed and no
money was being spent, so no taxes for the local government.
- Civil Engineering; Oil refining was discontinued in the
town and therefor the increasing of oil prices worldwide.
- People: Thousands of people drowned and therefor
causing grief over the whole city.
- Important Facts:
- The storm surge impacted all 100km of St.
Tammany Parish's coastline.
- Some parts were flooded 4.5 metres deep. And
most produce was not growing any longer.
- 90% of residents were evacuated because the evacuation
plan was ver successful. It was the most successful
evacuation of a major urban areas.
- When the storm hit, New Orleans was already one of the poorest
countries in the region with one of the highest unemployment rates.
- The extra 10% that remained in homes were elderly and
could not survive longer than the others.
- More information:
- The lack of revenue will limit the resources that
the town does not have.
- Katrina has also stimulated good research in academics into
planning urban, real estate finance and economic issues.
- The economy also lost a lot of their natural minerals and resources
such as grain and oil.