Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Katrina
On August 29, 2005 in New Orleans, Louisiana at about 5:00 in the morning, heavy rainfall fell across the city, And the unexpected happened. Most of the levees in New Orleans broke and the rain flooded the city. Most of the people were asleep around the time that the city flooded. Some were up and trying to evacuate the day before the governor of Louisiana made a public appearance on a local news station, and told the people of New Orleans that they should evacuate because the city was expected to flood the next day, Many people didn’t believe it, so they stayed in the city. When the city flooded, the governor (Roy Naggin) and President Bush tried to evacuate people too different cites because not many people were likely to survive.
President Bush and Governor Roy Nagin did little to help the people of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Texas because president Bush knew about the hurricane weeks before it happened and he could have demanded evacuation. Thousands of people in the state of Louisiana lost their lives because the president and the governor were careless, Meaning they didn’t do enough to help the people of Louisiana The Governor and the president knew about the hurricane weeks before it was supposed to take place but still did nothing to try and help the people.

The president and the governor called FEMA to help the people of Louisiana but little was done. The people still had to wait days for food, water and dry clothes to be delivered to them even after FEMA had been called constantly because they were not responding quick enough. Most of the people were looking for their family members who had been lost and scattered throughout the city. People from other states and cities tried to help. They brought busloads of food, water, clothes, hygiene supplies and much more but was stopped at the bridge because the police department of Louisiana said no one could past the gate even if they were looking for their family members.
The people of New Orleans were scattered throughout the United States by the President and the Governor. The majority of the people were sent to Georgia and Texas after the storm. When people chose where they wanted to go they chose Georgia and Texas. The lower 9th Ward in New Orleans, where most of the people lived was completely destroyed and flooded. When the people came to Georgia, they felt they didn’t have anything to live for because the government wasn’t trying to help them and neither was the President. They were not thinking about their actions, or what happened to them.
On August 29,2006 a year after Katrina when we revisit New Orleans some things have been rebuilt but many things look the same as a year ago. The richer side of New Orleans (thanks to the help of Oprah Winfrey) has been rebuilt but some people believe that she should of paid more attention to the poorer side than the richer side, but the poorer side of New Orleans looks the same before. Nothing has been bothered to be rebuilt. People are still living in hotels and FEMA trailers wondering where they will be laying their head in the future.