• Hurricane Katrina was one of the most deadly hurricanes ever to hit New Oreleans
• Water flooded everything
• Most people haven't eaten in days
• May people died
• 61000 people died
• Hurricane Pam was a simulation
• It was a year before Katrina
• No one took it serious
• Katrina started as a tropical depression, then a tropical storm
• When hurricane Ivan hit, it was kind of a false alarm, a third of the people left
• And when Katrina hit people were not as willing to leave, sceptical
• A plane flew right into a hurricane
• 90% of deaths in hurricanes are from drowning
• Metropalitian area in New Orleans is in a bowl, surrounded by water
• They tried to use levees to try to keep out the water
• The mississippi, and the lake connected to the Gulf of Mexico Lake Ponchatrane
• People built over swamps, and that changed and endangered that specific enviornment
• Flooding would protect and replenish wetlands
• Hurricanes spin counter clockwise
• 6:10 a.m Katrina hit
• Water would pour in and it had no where to go
• Land lines and cell phone towers were down
• 75% of New Orleans was under water
• Flood walls failed because of a soft weak soil