Hurricane Katrina Notes

• Katrina was going to be a killer storm
• Many people haven't eaten, slept, or have had a shower
• 120 mile per hour winds
• There was half a million homeless
• Begins as a tropical depression
• Heat and energy from the warm water gets released into the air, making severe winds
• 61,ooo dead people- hurricane Ivan
• The weather consistently shifts
• They have categories of dangerous storms, 1 to 5
• Monday, August 29,2005, is when the hurricane Katrina occurs
• what was going through the citizen's minds when they saw huge waves and tons of water coming fast at them?
• What was their first reaction?
• Who was the first person to come to your mind when you knew the hurricane was occurring.
• Most of the deaths were drowning.
• they now have levies and solid concrete walls that block floods
• Since the animals could not do anything, did they all die?
• Many people evacuated and many people didn't
• Other people didn't have the resources or means to leave.
• The walls of the houses would shake and make loud noises
• How come the poorer people are the ones that do not get any help