Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Katrina will forever be embedded in the minds of all Americans, It was in a way a wake up call to our lack of responsiveness towards crisis and an eye opener to building regulations in the country. Katrina effected 15 million people, killed 1,833 people, bankrupt 35 insurance agencies and threw America's economy on a rollercoaster. Rated as the costliest disaster in American history, Katrina will forever be remembered.  The Hurricane originally formed in the Bahamas on August 23, 2005. The cause was the rush of the cold weather towards the warm which made the water the right temperature to support a hurricane the rush of wind from the north collide with opposite wind forming a hurricane which made its way into the city of New Orleans and devastated it, with the power of a category 5 hurricane wind speeds reach 150 mph destroying homes, collapsing roofs and trees destroying levees which flooded the city. In total 81 Billion in property damage. As a country we learned we needed a quicker government response to disasters so that meant improving the F.E.M.A  system, next we learned that as smart as we are we cant control nature, and last we learned that in times of grief are when we stand strongest together as a nation. In all Katrina was a hard lesson learned.