Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Katrina was one of the worst natural disasters that have happened on earth. This natural disaster took place in most of New Orleans, and part of Mississippi. But the worst part was the number of kills, and the effects after which were really bad. I had a friend who came all the way from New Orleans, to Colorado because of the hurricane. He said that his whole entire house was flooded with water and that he had no place to stay so they decided to come to the mile high city. But he was not the only person I knew who went through Hurricane Katrina but one of my dad’s friends from work said that he was out of town during the time hurricane Katrina happened, and again for the same reason he decided to stay up here because we are the mile high city. But those were the only stories I personally heard. There wasn’t anything anyone could do when the hurricane was on its way, but to evacuate the whole entire city, and those who remained decided to stay either in their own homes or the superdome a stadium that is home to the New Orleans Saints.

But the scary part of the tragedy did not happen until the hurricane was finished. There was an estimated death higher then 2000, but only 1300 bodies were recovered. The worst part was how much water was in the city, and New Orleans is a city known to having the lowest sea level on earth. This caused Dams to break and water to come pouring in. It took quite a while for the city of New Orleans to start its road to recovery, but when they did they did a very good job. But this would not have happened without the help of many people around the world. Congress has provided the city of New Orleans 16.7 billion dollars, with the help of repairing the city. But tell this day you will find about thousands of homes that still remain a banded from its owners. But the worst part about it is that there is no one to punish for all of the deaths that has happened during that terrible tragedy, because this was a natural disaster not a actual person, so that is why I think that we as citizen need to be more aware of what is coming at us, and to stay strong for what may come in the future.