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"The Aftermath of a Hurricane"
2007.10.11
The reflection of the man in the window I caught by pure incident. It was heartbreaking seeing the tears flow down his checks as we by-passed the houses still standing abounded destroyed and marked with a red cross. He told us later that he lost everything and was back to see what had been done since the Hurricane had struck.
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The reflection of the man in the window I caught by pure incident. It was heartbreaking seeing the tears flow down his checks as we by-passed the houses still standing abounded destroyed and marked with a red cross. He told us later that he lost everything and was back to see what had been done since the Hurricane had struck.
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The levies
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The levies
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Hurricane Katrina was the costliest and one of the five deadliest hurricanes in the history of the United States. It was the sixth-strongest Atlantic hurricane ever recorded and the third-strongest hurricane on record that made landfall in the United States. In Louisiana, the federal flood protection system in New Orleans failed in 53 different places. Nearly every levee in metro New Orleans breached as Hurricane Katrina passed east of the city, subsequently flooding 80% of the city and many areas of neighboring parishes for weeks. At least 1,836 people lost their lives in Hurricane Katrina and in the subsequent floods.
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Hurricane Katrina was the costliest and one of the five deadliest hurricanes in the history of the United States. It was the sixth-strongest Atlantic hurricane ever recorded and the third-strongest hurricane on record that made landfall in the United States. In Louisiana, the federal flood protection system in New Orleans failed in 53 different places. Nearly every levee in metro New Orleans breached as Hurricane Katrina passed east of the city, subsequently flooding 80% of the city and many areas of neighboring parishes for weeks. At least 1,836 people lost their lives in Hurricane Katrina and in the subsequent floods.
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Louisiana is one of the poorest US State and even poorer now after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.
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Louisiana is one of the poorest US State and even poorer now after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.
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On my visit to New Orleans I visited the areas of destruction from Hurricane Katrina. Watching and hearing the devastating news over radio and Television two years ago it still garbed my heart to see what the Hurricane had done to the land, housing and people.
It was hard to accept and grasp the information shared with us by the bus tour guide. Knowing that the levies have not been reconstructed to hold the water back the next time a Hurricane of this caliber hits.
I though this may be of interest. Of course there is a lot of conflict in Louisiana about Canada Ville and on the news lately.
Canada Ville is a project by Canadian industrialist Frank Stronach to build an experimental model community for people displaced by Hurricane Katrina. It is situated on 3.69 square kilometers (912 acres) of land in Simmesport, Louisiana. Rather than simply providing temporary shelter to the evacuees, a measure that often ends up as an exercise in crowd control, Canadaville aims to help its residents integrate into a long-term holistic farming community. It will raise livestock and seafood which will be served at Stomach’s Gulf Stream Park in Palm Beach, Florida.
The 75 mobile housing units are 1420 square feet (132 square meters) in size, and have three bedrooms and two bathrooms, air conditioning, washers, dryers, and other amenities. As former Canadian MP Dennis Mills described it, "this is no FEMA Village".
Residents, which numbered over 200 by August 2006, Katrina's first anniversary, will be able to stay rent-free for five years, with the requirement that (if able-bodied) they contribute to the community by learning new skills or using their existing skills. Since many of the Katrina evacuees were extremely poor and generally not well-educated, Canadaville's backers hope that the Canadaville experience will help the evacuees gain self-reliance that they didn't have before. Stronach explained, "we would hopefully be able to put in an infrastructure whereby you would create a new life for them, a life of hope, spirit, so that they will be self-supporting and not on welfare. That's the idea."
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Comments
Lovely set telling a sad story. It must be really devastating for people who suffer from these acts of nature.
There is no hurricane in Hong Kong. What I heard and see is just from the TV and movie. I understand that it is very powerful and causes serious damages to people and property
Mag you did it again.
Great post and eye opener about catastrophes happening in the world and how important it is to be aware of the climate changes that bring fort this severe weather changes. We as humans need to contribute to stop and better these changes
