Katrina News Online

Hurricane Katrina is the single biggest natural phenomenon of the 21st century. It shattered the total southeastern region of the United States. The whole was distressed by the hurricane as they either reside in the region, formerly lived in the region or had friends or family from the region. The hurricane can be described in many ways. It is a powerful spin of wind speed that starts from the equator. They are very dangerous storm as there is no way to stop them. During a hurricane it rains and regularly times causes flooding. A hurricanes “lifetime” is from when the swirl starts in the south to when it hits land and finally dies down. when previously mentioned, a hurricane is ended up of serious swirling winds and lots of water. This describes how a hurricane might probably be a phenomenon since it can be described in things, has clockworks and has frameworks.

In New Orleans the 5.8 million people existing in the areas hit hardest by Katrina, some several 1.3 million lived in the New Orleans metropolitan region, with close to one-half the million people living in the city of New Orleans itself. The scarcity rate in the city is outstandingly high. The survey data point out that more than one in four — 28 percent — of the city’s inhabitants were living in paucity earlier than the hurricane descended upon the city. Of the 245 big cities in the nation (those with populations of 100,000 or more), New Orleans attached for the sixth poorest in the 2000 census.

Those who were poor in New Orleans usually lacked their own means of transportation. Our calculations, based on the survey data, illustrate that more half of the broke households in New Orleans — 54 percent — did not have a car, truck, or van in 2000. with the elderly, the ratio was higher. Sixty-five percent of poor elderly households in New Orleans did not have a vehicle, make it more hard for them to getaway the hurricane and its effects.

On August 28^th, 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit the southern coast of the United States with devastating effect. It was reported that more then 1,800 people lost there lives, and more then $81 billion dollars in damages occurred.

As a result, efforts to assist those effected by Hurricane Katrina still continue, as those effected by the terrible hurricane continue to work to regain the health and livelihood that they had before the storm. The resources below provide access to historical information related to the event, as well as on-going aid and assistance that is currently available to the effected public.

Actress Katrina Kaif, who is featuring in the promotional video of Vijay Mallya’s Indian Premier League players ‘Royal Challengers’, astonished everyone when she played a hoax when shooting the song. Katrina took the mike and changed her voice and then announced that Katrina had fainted owing to the non-stop shooting in the boiling heat. The shoot had started at 7 a.m. at the Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai which is owned by the Cricket Club of India (CCI).

Soon the whole unit panicked and anxiously started searching for her but couldn’t locate her for nearly half an hour. Director Sanjay Gupta and choreographer Bosco were so tensed since they had to finish the shoot in the restricted time that was allotted by the authorities. Everyone took relief when they saw Katrina emerging, having a good laugh.

On August 28, 2005, Hurricane Katrina was in the Gulf of Mexico where it powered up to a Category 5 storm on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale packing winds estimated at 175 mph.

At 7:10 a.m. EDT on August 29, Hurricane Katrina made landfall in southern Plaquemines Parish Louisiana, just south of Buras, as a Category 3 hurricane. Maximum winds were estimated near 125 mph to the east of the center.

Although Katrina will be recorded as the most destructive storm in terms of economic losses, it did not exceed the human losses in storms such as the Galveston Hurricane of 1900, which killed as many as 6,000-12,000 people, and led to almost complete destruction of coastal Galveston. (Click image on left for high resolution version.)

Hurricane Andrew, in 1992, cost approximately $21 billion in insured losses (in today’s dollars), whereas estimates from the insurance industry as of late August 2006, have reached approximately $60 billion in insured losses (including flood damage) from Katrina. The storm could cost the Gulf Coast states as much as an estimated $125 billion.

Hundreds of NOAA employees from many divisions of the agency were involved with Hurricane Katrina, which involved forecasting the storm; surveying and clearing waterways; responding to oil and chemical spills; and testing fisheries.

During the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, the NOAA P-3 turboprop aircraft flew around and into 11 named storms—including Katrina—accounting for 73 missions, which translates into 480 flight hours. The P-3s also flew into the eyewall of the storms 109 times.

NOAA’s Gulfstream IV jet flew 50 missions, for a total 389 flight hours.

NOAA’s Citation aircraft flew 50 aerial photography missions after Hurricanes Katrina, Ophelia and Rita, which amounted to 105 flight hours and thousands of high resolution photos of the storms’ damage.