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Hurricane Katrina

On August 29th, 2005 Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Gulf Coast and completely leveled homes, and destroyed lives.   Although as of today, the city of New Orleans is no longer under water, it still continues to suffer from the wrath of the Category 3 hurricane.  
As the eye of the hurricane swept northeast, the city suffered from hurricane conditions for hours, even up to hurricane-force winds of a category 2 hurricane.
Katrina’s storm surge breached 53 levees that were set up to protect the city of New Orleans.   The three major levee breaches were at the 17th Street Canal levee, the London Avenue Canal, and the wider Industrial Canal.   This shows that the Hurricane Protection Project of New Orleans failed.   There have now been many government officials to call for hearings to investigate engineering behind the collapse of the flood protection system.   Because of these breaches most of the major roads in and out of the city were damaged.   The roads that were still open only carried emergency vehicles.   Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport was closed before the storm, but reopened on August 30th for humanitarian efforts and then limited commercial passenger service in early October.
According to Mayor Ray Nagin the Superdome became the “shelter of last resort”.   It had been used as shelter previously.   The first time it was used was in 1998 for the Hurricane Georges and then again for Hurricane Ivan in 2004.   The Superdome was not built with to withstand major catastrophes. It was initially reported that the roof was estimated to withstand 200 mph winds and flood waters of 20 feet high. But no engineering study was not completed on the amount of disaster the structure could with stain.   However, the damage to the roof was not bad and with only two 15 to 20 foot holes and most of the white rubber membrane surrounding the facility was ripped off.   The damage inside the Superdome seemed to be more of a problem.   Because of poor planning and...