Hurricanes – The Frightening Challenges for New Orleans

Nature is the most precious thing that the earth has. However, there are times when Mother Nature gets angry and natural disasters come down. It may be a long-term rainstorm causing flooding, which may be prolonged droughts, etc. No matter how it occurs, natural disasters leave behind pain and wounds live human. Rain may be romantic, may be sad or maybe good depends on each person feeling but the storm does not. Storm is a big danger that has been destroyed many humans life and it is aimed at things that are not good.

Hurricane Katrina occurred and landed on the south coast of the United States on August 28, 2005. The main area that the storm struck was New Orleans in the morning. This storm took away the lives of nearly 2,000 people. Causing the United States to suffer as much as 90,000 square miles, the damage of this catastrophic storm has cost more than $ 81 billion. The storm began on the 28th until the 31st, when eighty percent of the city was submerged underwater because the storm broke the city's dyke. When the water breaks the dyke, this causes large water supplies to flow into Louisiana from the coast, the Mississippi River and other water sources. This hurricane stood strong 3 when it attacked the city, swam more than 140 mph. Within 9 hours, the storm had moved from a Category 3 storm to a Category 5 storm, which caused storms to shift over the negative waters of the circular flow, increasing the wind speed of the storm. Many places in New Orleans have reached 15 feet of water. After the storm, the state activated an emergency operation center with 57 emergency hideouts extended along the coast. The city has been immersed in the sea for many days, causing damage such as long-standing large trees floating out of the ground, even many houses or vehicles broke Katrina's storm that destroyed the Living by many people, it devastates homes, businesses, etc. Many people lost their families, lost their children, lost their father, and lost their mother. The government plans to evacuate people 40 hours ago with a tropical storm, but many plans are private bases relying on buses, ambulance services and private companies to evacuate people who have lost their lives. lost because asked to wait too long. Katrina destroyed the wild habitat and breeding grounds of animals. Seven million gallon oil leaked into the ocean, causing thousands of animals to be destroyed. Because of this, some towns still suffer from oil pollution. 40% were drowned, 25% injured, and heart disease caused 11% of all dead.

Hurricane Barry arrived on the night of Saturday July 12, 2019. Barry flooded the highway, making people hastily rushed to seek shelter. After a long, heavy rain, which became a storm, the system quickly weakened to a hurricane that landed near Intracoastal, Louisiana with a windfall of 74 mph per hour and about 160 miles west of New Orleans. Barry is expected to continue to become a tropical depression on Sunday. The government has called for the rescue of more than a dozen people clinging to the roof as the amount of water has risen too high. Many people helped each other to remove sandbags around the house to prevent flooding of water. Many families put protective bags on their cars, asking if this is their biggest concern when floods come. Many businesses have also closed in Baton Rouge, the level of wind is strong enough to shed large trucks. Oil and gas operators evacuate hundreds of stations and many Jiang drill in the Gulf of Mexico. 70% of oil production and 56% of gas production were shut down on Saturday according to the US Department of Environmental Safety and Enforcement. Most of the people in New Orleans were known to have a storm, so they moved to other places so the roads were mostly empty. More than 70,000 people without electricity on Saturday morning, including 67,000 people in Louisiana and more than 3,000 people in Mississippi. Rainfall on the Alabama and Mississippi shores caused some islands to be flooded with rain and rising water from the Gulf. Governors declared emergencies have closed floods and increased water barriers around New Orleans to further ensure.

After the storm many families moved away. Floods caused houses to deteriorate and made many people's lives difficult. This serious loss causes so many unbelievable things to happen as the infiltration of animals, corpses everywhere, fires, burning, homeless people, looting or disease problems and other serious health issues. This is a serious and frightening challenge that New Orleans has to deal with.