Hurricane Katrina

A WORLD EVENT

WHERE WERE YOU ON AUG. 29, 2005?

Produced for Fifth grade students by Ramona Atkins

•Hurricane Katrina passed Florida and continued its path as it slammed into the Gulf of Mexico on Aug. 29, 2005.•It registered as a category 4 hurricane. It was a disaster for Louisiana and Mississippi.•It was one of the worst recorded hurricanes in the United States.•It had a 90,000 square miles disaster zone—equivalent to the size of Great Britain.

What is a hurricane?What is a category 4 hurricane?Why did this affect the world?

A hurricane is a severe tropical cyclone that begins near the warmth of the equator or the open ocean and carries a lot of rain with it as it moves inland. A hurricane has a wind speed that is greater than 74 miles per hour.

Hurricanes are measured by the intensity of four conditions:Atmospheric pressureWind speedStorm surgePotential damage

Hurricanes are recorded into one of five catergories.

•Category 1: 74 mph winds--some damage to tree, shrubs, possible flooding

•Category 2: 96 mph winds--considerable damage to trees (leaves blown off, branches broken) shingles blown off rooves, mobile homes in danger

•Category 3: 111 mph winds-- trees are uprooted or stipped, damage to buildings (cracked windows, lost shingles), flooding

•Category 4: 131 mph winds--major damage to buildings, extreme flooding along the coast

•Category 5: >155 mph winds—catastrophic, buildings can be swept away by strong winds or raging waters. Evacuation near the coast, severe flooding.

Why did this Hurricane Katrina receive the world’s attention?

•The government was not prepared for such a catastrophic disaster.•Many lost their homes and their families.•Hurricane Katrina cost over $108 billion dollars in damage.•Over 60 nations offered assistance; many of them were poor nations.•Thousands of jobs were gone.•Economy would effect numerous nations.

Some of these nations included Afghanistan, Greece, Sweden, El Salvador, Russia, Switzerland, France, Latvia, Norway, Britain, Germany, Italy, Cuba, China, Singapore, Japan, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Canada, Mexico,India, SriLanka, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Saudi Arabia, even Iran. Many of the supplies and aid were not able to help in time because of poor management of the emergency response agency called FEMA.

Over a million people were displaced.Over 1,800 died from the effects of the hurricane.

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Katrina Relief Part I - Superdome New Orleans

Cultural Issues

The Best and the Worst of Humanity

Individuals, Groups, and Interactions

Hurricane Katrinahttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCjt_5GMUi4

PEOPLE HELPED.

Hurricane Katrina – (Listen To Your Heart)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvoEiBnpCc8

Government

Income gone!Jobs lost.

As businesses were destroyed or shut down,

the economy nose-dived.

Economic Effects

Katrina damaged or destroyed 30 oil platforms and caused the closure of nine refineries.

Oil prices rose. Who did this effect?

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TourismTravel and tourism In Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama accounted for over 18 billion dollars in business income each year, employing over 260,000 people. Hurricane Katrina changed all of this.

Geography

•Can you tell the difference?•Chandeleur Islands was reshaped.•Beach erosion was massive.•In one survey 217 square miles of land was transformed to water.

•Breeding grounds for marine•Animals were gone.•16 National Wild Life Refugees were closed.

Environmental Effects

Mardi Gras, the New Orleans Bowl, the Sugar Bowl, and the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.

EntertainmentFamous recognized events cancelled from

Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane KatrinaEducation:Schools and Colleges closeGraduation delayed

Five NCAA football games, including Tulane vs. Southern Mississpippi at Hattiesburg and North Texas vs. Louisiana State at Baton Rouge were postponed and the New Orleans Bowl moved.

How many states felt the rains and winds from Hurricane Katrina? Was your family affected?Do you think this will be written about in history books for the next group of children to read about?

The world will not easily forget an event this big and this costly.

Hurricane Katrina affected both the rich and the poor, the young and the old, the American and those across seas. She did not choose a skin color, a race, a religion, a gender; she chose all in her path.

There was a lot of disappointment in people and government. There was a lot of love from neighbors and nations. Hurricane Katrina made history and changed the way disasters would be handled in the future—it made America create new laws and look at the safety of her own people. It made the world stop and think, listen and learn. That is history in the making and we are all a part of it.

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Social Studies - Curriculum Standards- Fifth Grade

Culture:GLE 1.02 Discuss cultures and human patterns of places and regions of the world.Economics:GLE 2.02 Give examples of the interaction of individuals, businesses, and governments in a market economy.Geography:GLE 3.01 Understand how to use maps, globes, and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process and report information from a spatial perspective.Governance and CivicsGLE 4.01 Discuss the structure and purposes of governance.History : Era 10GLE 5.14 Understand economic, social, and cultural developments in the contemporary United States.Individuals, Groups, and InteractionsGLE 6.01 Recognize the impact of individual and group decisions on citizens and communities in a democratic republic. 6.02 Understand how groups can impact change at the local, state, and national level.

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