Quarter 2 Project

For my 2nd quarterly project, my group and I decided to talk about how hurricanes affect humans, especially focusing on Hurricane Katrina. Our main points are going to be about why Katrina was so bad, what the people there had put in place to prevent damage, and finally what the damage and reconstruction process was like in the city of New Orleans. When we split it up, my part of the presentation was the part on damage and reconstruction.

While the hurricane hit and affected a large area of land, New Orleans was the largest and worst place affected. When the levees broke, the low lying areas, where the majority of the city and the people were, got flooded, resulting in massive amounts of destruction. There was over 108 billion dollars in property and infrastructure damage. It was not just the physical damage that was devastating. Katrina left over 1 million refugees and over 1,800 people dead in it's wake.

Despite all the damage however, many organizations tried to help alleviate and fix the damage. Some of them were national organization such as the Red Cross and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, while others were more local, like the Louisiana Disaster Recovery Foundation. There were many other ones based out of churches that helped and unite the devastated communities. With all the reconstruction efforts, the city is once again a large tourist spot, and while some of the hurricane's effects still remain, the condition is much improved and almost to how it was before Katrina.