Kanrina

Corey Greenberg
5/6/11
Entre Studies

Hurricane Katrina

The disaster that applies to me from the last five years is the hurricane Katrina incident. When the hurricane hit New Orleans on August 29, 2005 it broke the levees and caused a mass flood. This caused money and other necessary items to go to them instead of the rest of the country. This was one of deadliest hurricane in the US'S history killing 1,836 people.
This disaster does apply to me because I live in the country were this happened. The US did not take care of this the right way, instead they just let the people suffer as their world was turned upside down. After the flood cleared it looked like a battle had gone on there. FEMA which was supposed to go down and help went there and help did not go down until most of what could go wrong did go wrong.
My grandparents have a house in Florida they were not there at that time. The hurricane did do a small amount of damage to them it ripped of some parts of the screened in porch. This nothing like what happened in New Orleans because Florida was hit with a much less significant storm.
Many things had to be cut when trying to aid the victims. The tax payers had to pay a little bit more to help cover the $90 billion dollars in damage to the country.