The Storm That Drowned A City

- The storms came from west Africa
- The tropical depression became a tropical storm
- Katrina is still a tropical storm but may become a hurricane
- Category 5 is the worst type. The top of houses are blown off
- Four days before the hurricane his New Orleans, it becomes a category 1
- 90% of deaths are from drowning
- When the Mississippi flooded, about 500 people died
- The federal government had a large part to play.
- Built cement wall to cover the water from coming in
- Levees: combination of human geo and physical geo
- Hurricane Katrina was heading their way
- Louisianans wetlands were vanishing
- Not everyone were wanting to leave
- 1969, Hurricane Camille, worse storm
- Hurricane Katrina was bumped up to a Category 5
- This was the day before she hit New Orleans
- The Mississippi River grew 11 feet
- August 29- Katrina strikes
- Levees weren't working right
- 15 foot wave hit
- 1927-The great flood
- The floods were 28 feet
- Communities are wiped out
- Katrina was moving north and was weakening
- This was the second flood that the city had experienced
- The system was used to keep the water out
- Over topping was the main reason the levees failed
- 40s, 50s, and 60s were very active during hurricane season
- It became active again in the early 2000s
- Much of the city was below sea level
- 1,300 dead and 1,800 homeless
- These people lost their homes and their loved ones