Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Hurricane Katrina
- Date
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- 24th August - 31st August 2005
- Location
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- Along the south coast of America but it badly effected New Orleans and Louisiana
- Death toll
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- New Orleans
- Poverty
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- New Orleans had a 20% poverty rate at the time
20% of people had no form of transport so couldn't evacuate
- floodwater
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- 80% of New Orleans was under flood water
the Levees kept the flood water inside New Orleans
an average house was under 6-9 ft of water
- crime rate
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- the crime rate increased as 249 officers abandoned their posts during the flood
looting, theft, murder and rape all increased
- the Super Dome
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- those who didn't evacuate where encouraged to take refuge in the Superdome
10,000 people came at first but that number doubled
people were stuck there for 3 days
- crime rate
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- 6 dead bodies where found in the super dome
1 was classified as a homicde
- the Convention centre
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- 25,000 people gathered at a convention centre for food, shelter and help
- Relief
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- 500,000 rescues where made
ordinary people decided to help with the rescues and officers went door to door looking for survivors
18 million packaged meals where handed out
- Storm category
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- Hurricane Katrina started as a category 1 storm but as it moved towards the south coast it quickly became a category 5
- prediction
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- the storm was mapped and its course was predicted so people were given opportunity to evacuate and prepare for its arrival