Hurricane Katrina: A Disaster Beyond Comprehension - A Retrospective And Analysis

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Mid-August 2005, people across the gulf coast of the United States were enjoying the end of the Summer Holiday. Schools were about to come back into session across portions of the United States, and tourists flooded the streets across many areas along the Gulf Coast, attracted to the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Locals lived life as normal, busy, yet nothing to worry about. Little did everyone know, that come a couple weeks later, that everything would change, because of a single storm that has gone down in Infamy as one of the worst storms to ever hit the United States, Hurricane Katrina.
From Florida, to the gulf coasts of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, to the inland United States, Hurricane Katrina brought it's wrath to the people across the United States. Of course, New Orleans suffered the worst from Katrina, with 80% of the city being submerged under water after the storm. The levee system had failed, leading to walls of water crashing down into the city of New Orleans. The response to the disaster, both in preparations and in the response, is considered to be the worst response to a natural disaster from the United States Government, on the local, state, and federal levels. People, already know this. However, after conducting research into Hurricane Katrina, the storm was far worse than many give credit for, with warning signs of what could happen being thought of over a decade before. Hurricane Katrina's response was infuriating, but the construction of the levee system was the most infuriating part of the whole storm's history.

But today, I want to look deeper into Hurricane Katrina, looking deeper into how the meteorological development of Hurricane Katrina, how the response failed. My goal is to go in depth with Hurricane Katrina, and make a definitive video essay about the events associated with Hurricane Katrina. So today: I will be taking a deep dive into Hurricane Katrina: Going over the state of the 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season thus far, the origins, the forecast, the preparations taken, the storm’s impacts on the areas it traveled across, the aftermath and failed response to Hurricane Katrina from the government, and the legacy that the storm has. Welcome to Nature’s Fury.

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[johnchedsey]

It's been 17 years and I still remember how angry I felt watching this all unfold on TV and various blogs of the time. No matter what some politicians claim, good government saves lives.

[RobertDecker]

I will never forget a picture I saw of the Katrina cleanup. Mexican soldiers were helping us clean up the coast. Every time Mexico is in the news in a good/bad light, I think of that photo.

[BlazinTre]

God. I still have nightmares about this storm. I was in the lower 9th ward and I tried to get my mother out but she was so stubborn. She survived hurricane Betty and thought she was tough enough to weather Katrina.

We were in an Attic/ on a roof for 3 days before we were rescued. I still dream of that helicopter ride to the Tulane Bridge...

[reilashiryu]

I'm 23 years old and I was in the deadzone of Katrina. When this happened, I was 6 years old and just turned 6 too. My mother delayed our leave to the DAY OF the storm, thinking that this wasn't going to be that bad. The moment she saw those black clouds over the beach, she threw everything she could into the car, including me, and we left. When we returned, I wasn't even allowed to see my old home anymore because by the time they returned, black mold had infested the house. It was torn off its foundation, only held back by the plumbing. We lost EVERYTHING in that storm and were homeless for a good while. We have NO AID during any of that, including the very insurance my mother placed on the house beforehand. We were royally screwed. To this day, I have PTSD from the storm and how I could hear it raging right behind us as we were speeding away from it, and then the torrential rains and thunder made everything worse. Can't sit through a regular thunderstorm, even a light one, without shaking uncontrollably. I was lucky I survived and only came out with PTSD, and knowing now just how many people died in that storm saddled me with a survivor's guilt that has only recently begun fading.

[dllpckle]

I was fairly young when Katrina ripped through New Orleans. Didn't realize until YEARS later just how bad it really was. If you want to understand the toll that storm took on people, there's a movie called "Hours" I believe. It takes place in a hospital, probably based on Charity Hospital in New Orleans, and the main character is a man who lost his wife during child labor during Katrina, and he's stuck in the flooded, darkened hospital as his daughter can't breath on her own.

[junebug]

Completely ruined my stepdad's life recalling how he lost all of his belongings and whatnot because of Katrina. Spent years going from city to city (before settling in my city) trying his best to settle down. Last year one of his relatives went through his old, destroyed house and found an old picture of him from when he was a kid. Made him the happiest he's been in years.

[brittanybedran]

I was young when Katrina hit. But it’s still a core memory. From preparation and evacuating to not being able to go home for months. At 6 years old you don’t understand fully what’s going on but you know something is off. Ever since then I’ve had this almost obsession with Katrina and how our political officials failed every. single. person.
My family was lucky but so many of our friends and family were not. My grandparents lost everything and decided to move. My great grandmother, who was in a senior care facility, was eventually evacuated and they lost her. Physically. It took a week for our family to finally find her. In Georgia…
My heart truly goes out to every person that lived through the horrors of Katrina. It’s something that nobody will ever forget.

[taco-bell-rey]

I remember being a kid in Texas and watching the live coverage with my parents and remember how angry we were. Katrina just proved that local, state, and federal government does not care about people that live in poverty.

[vrswp]

A former co-worker was still in the USMC reserve then, and he was deployed to NOLA to help with the search and rescue efforts. He has said for 2-3 days local authorities actually blocked USMC and Coast Guard personnel from entering the city to help and distribute what relief supplies they had.

[Alferia]

JUST REAL QUICK; MISSISSIPPI RESPONSE WAS ALSO HORRIBLE AND I DIDN'T REALLY LOOK TO FAR INTO IT AND I APOLOGIZE GREATLY FOR THAT PLEASE DO NOT KILL ME!!!
On another note: I apologize for the overusage of my stills, it does come of a bit tone deaf and they are necessary for some parts where I do not have any relevant footage to show without getting the channel striked. I did use them too much in this video and I'll keep it to a minimum from now on.
I went ahead and cut that sentence out of the video. that's my fault and I'd rather not have misinformation on my video.

[TwirlGirl]

Thank your for emphasizing there are people who do not have the means/ability to evacuate. So many people, like my parents, view everyone who doesn’t evacuate ahead of big storms as idiots looking for a thrill or even bigger idiots who think they’re invincible. They often forget people in hospice, people memory care facilities/nursing homes, people with complex medical needs, people needing ventilators or ECMO, people without cars or a drivers license, the homeless, and those too poor to pay for price gouged gas cannot leave on their own or at all. And not only that, people working in hospitals and care facilities often have to stay behind with the patients in their care. And while there are true idiots who stay by choice, most would evacuate if the had the means to do so but simply don’t.

[sharaxo]

My father is from the lower 9th ward in New Orleans. At the time we were living in California. My father was glued to the TV and watch in absolute horror. In 2015 we went to see the house that my father grew up in. It's was completely and utterly destroyed. I had rarely seen my dad cry like that but he stood there motionless for what had to have been 30 minutes just crying.

[strangecreature]

I have a family member who volunteered after Katrina in New Orleans. The damage there was absolutely devastating. This storm was an absolute monster and with probably be remembered in infamy for a very long time

[Snuzzled]

I did emergency insurance claims for victims of Hurricane Katrina. I made $20/hr, which today is about the equivalent of $32/hr.

It wasn't worth it. Frequently, myself and coworkers would break down crying during our shift. The stories were horrible. So many of my coworkers left mid shift and just never came back. I don't blame them.

[superman]

The tone in your voice shows how horrific the response was. The governor just “ we don’t need help “ I swear she was something else. The government did barely anything. So many more people could’ve been saved but no .

[dreamthread]

I was barely a year old when Katrina happened. My stepdad was in the coast guard during the hurricane and was a rescue diver. He has many stories from his time in the military, but he barely talks about his time during the rescue efforts. He is truly traumatized by what he saw, but he refuses to even think about it. One day, he was upset and I asked what was wrong. He said he had caught a glimpse of me while I was walking past him and I reminded him of a girl he had tried to save. Apparently she had just graduated college and had drowned mere minutes before he had gotten to her house. He said he wished he would have been able to save more people. My dad never cries, but that day, he was a mess. He would leave the coast guard due to an injury received during a recuse where his foot got stuck and he had to break his ankle to not drown. The hurricane effected everyone, and though I wasn’t old enough, I can see it’s affects to this day.

[rinzler]

I did a paper on this for English. We were to write about some major event. I chose Katrina because everything that could go wrong, did go wrong.
The infrastructure before, during and after were a perfect display of government ineptitude, and the insurance companies balking at the idea of actually HAVING to pay people en masse for a disaster reveals what a scam the system is.

[melissajohnson]

Another major infrastructure failure in New Orleans (thats still a issue today) was the pump system. They were approaching nearly 100 years old during Katrina. On a good day only half work and they require constant upkeep. They were not built higher than the levee system and most were under water after the levee breaks. And that wasn't the worst part of the system, the worst part was that it was the ONLY way they had to pump water out. They had no plan B. They had no back up or back up for the back ups. So even when they patched up the levee breaks, they had no way to pump the water out. They had to bring in portable pumps that pumped out water through 3 inch pipes.

[brittanyison]

I would love to see you do a video on the 2021 Texas snow storm. That was one hell of a week

[markashton]

As a British citizen, the response to this disaster was a disaster in itself. I refer to this event as the death of America. The Topgear special filmed a year later emphasised the failure of all positions of authority to protect the people, and what makes this worse is the lessons drawn clearly were not learned by anyone as around the world, the powers that be simply stick their heads into the nearest pile of sand and hope the problem goes away. If anyone is offended of my opinion from the affected areas, I am well aware that my country died with the thatcher administration. Thinking of you all.