On August 23, 2005, Hurricane Katrina formed over the gulf of Mexico as a tropical depression. She intensified to a category 5 hurricane over the gulf and by August 29 was a category 3 hurricane when she made landfall near Buras, Louisiana.
Disaster ensued as 80% of the metropolitan area of New Orleans was flooded due to breached levees, though time and cause reports are not consistent. The fact remains, however, that Hurricane Katrina was the deadliest and most expensive hurricane in U.S. history.
As of August 2, 2006, the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals stated that 1,464 people had died and 135 were missing in the aftermath of the hurricane, with most of the figure being New Orleans victims. Damages are believed to have exceeded $100 billion, and though charities and relief organizations have been created, and billions of dollars given, little seems to have gone to the Katrina survivors.
The following website has been created by The Earth Institute at Columbia University. It is a project made in hopes of documenting the lost lives of the Katrina disaster.
http://www.katrinalist.columbia.edu/
There is also a blog available for people to offer their thoughts, memories, and condolences for the families of the survivors and the city itself.
http://katrinalist.wordpress.com/
For more on Hurrican Katrina, environmental concerns, statistics, facts, and the information that has been made available to you in this post, please refer to the following website:
http://www.infocollective.org/katrina.html
We hope that you will join us all here in One Quarter French in remembering New Orleans and both the victims and survivors of Hurricane Katrina. It is our dearest hope that our small thought or word of prayer might reach those hearts and create some small comfort.
Disaster ensued as 80% of the metropolitan area of New Orleans was flooded due to breached levees, though time and cause reports are not consistent. The fact remains, however, that Hurricane Katrina was the deadliest and most expensive hurricane in U.S. history.
As of August 2, 2006, the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals stated that 1,464 people had died and 135 were missing in the aftermath of the hurricane, with most of the figure being New Orleans victims. Damages are believed to have exceeded $100 billion, and though charities and relief organizations have been created, and billions of dollars given, little seems to have gone to the Katrina survivors.
The following website has been created by The Earth Institute at Columbia University. It is a project made in hopes of documenting the lost lives of the Katrina disaster.
http://www.katrinalist.columbia.edu/
There is also a blog available for people to offer their thoughts, memories, and condolences for the families of the survivors and the city itself.
http://katrinalist.wordpress.com/
For more on Hurrican Katrina, environmental concerns, statistics, facts, and the information that has been made available to you in this post, please refer to the following website:
http://www.infocollective.org/katrina.html
We hope that you will join us all here in One Quarter French in remembering New Orleans and both the victims and survivors of Hurricane Katrina. It is our dearest hope that our small thought or word of prayer might reach those hearts and create some small comfort.
