Tactical Response to Hurricane Katrina

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This paper discusses the build up to Katrina, the hurricane that hit the United States very abruptly in August 2005, and reports how the federal, state, and local agencies were extremely unprepared for this horrific storm and that lack of communication added to some of the main problems with the entire situation. The paper provides a comprehensive time line of events leading up to the disaster and actions taken in the following days and sets out the recommendations made afterwards to help the government be better prepared in the future for any other challenges of this nature.

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"On August 28, 2005 a category five storm on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale with winds estimated at one hundred and seventy-five mph was heading straight for New Orleans, Louisiana. "At 7:10 a.m. EDT on August 29, Hurricane Katrina made landfall in southern Plaquemines Parish Louisiana, just south of Buras, as a Category 3 hurricane. Maximum winds were estimated near 125 mph to the east of the center" (NOAA Public Affairs, 2007).
"Hurricane Katrina was one of the strongest storms to hit the coast of the United States within the last one hundred years. Katrina caused a great deal of devastation along the Gulf Coast of the United States. Many cities and towns were destroyed by Katrina (Lawrimore, 2005). More than eighteen hundred people were reported to have lost their lives and more then eight-one billion dollars in damages occurred as a result of Katrina (Hurricane Katrina, 2005)."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Hurricane Katrina. (2005) Retrieved September 30, 2008, from U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Web site: http://www.hhs.gov/disasters/emergency/naturaldisasters/hurricanes/katrina/index.html
• Katrina: The storm we always feared. (2005) Retrieved October 2, 2008, from The Times- Picayune Web site: http://www.nola.com/katrina/archive.ssf
• Lawrimore, Jay (2005, December 29). Climate of 2005 Summary of Hurricane Katrina. Retrieved September 30, 2008, from NOAA Satellite and Information Service Web site: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/2005/katrina.html
• Niles, Robert (2005, September 7). A timeline of government response to Hurricane Katrina. Retrieved October 2, 2008, from Knight Digital Media Center Web site: http://www.ojr.org/ojr/wiki/Katrina_Timeline/
• NOAA Public Affairs (2007, February 12). Hurricane Katrina. Retrieved October 2, 2008, from NOAA Web site: http://www.noaa.gov

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