HURRICANE KATRINA

Hurricane Katrina was one of the deadliest hurricanes ever to hit the United States. Hurricane Katrina started out as any other hurricane, as the result of warm moisture and air from the oceans surface that built into storm clouds and pushed around by strong forceful winds until it became a powerful storm. Hurricane Katrina formed over the Bahamas on August 23, 2005 and crossed southern Florida as a moderate Category 1 hurricane, causing some deaths and flooding there before strengthening rapidly in the Gulf of Mexico. The hurricane strengthened to a Category 5 hurricane over the warm Gulf water, but weakened before making its second landfall as a Category 3 hurricane on the morning of Monday, August 29 in southeast …show more content…
Shortly after the hurricane moved away on August 30, 2005, some residents of New Orleans who remained in the city began looting stores. Many of these looters were in search of food and water that was not available to them through anywhere else. Reports of carjacking, murders, thefts and rapes in New Orleans flooded the news. Crime increased and many of the police departments were submerged in water. Officers went for days without sleep as they rescued trapped residents from rooftops.
Rapper Kanye West accused President George W. Bush of racism during a Hurricane Katrina benefit concert. The government was accused of making things worse by preventing help by others while also delaying its own response.
Hurrincan Katrina was very costly, but more than 70 countries pledged monetary donations or other assistance after the hurricane. Kuwait made the largest single pledge of $500 million, but Qatar, India, China, Pakistan and Bangladesh made very large donations as well.
New Orleans is once again alive and had come a long was since the 2005 Hurricane Katrina. In 2013 the San Francisco 49ers faced the Baltimore Ravens in the Super Bowl in New Orleans. The remake of New Orleans included the $300 million spent to repair the holes in the Superdome roof and upgrade the building. Billions of dollars and thousands of volunteers flowed into the rest of the city to clean up and start