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Hurricane Katrina
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Hurricane Katrina
- 40 mailes an hour(65Km/H)
- 370Km away form the Miami
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Hurricane Katrina
- Ranked as 1st level hurricane (5:00pm)
- Wind speed is 75miles(120Km/H)
- Hurricane stay at 25Km away form Fort Lauerdale, Florida
- The eye of hurricane Florida(7:00pm)
- Wind speed is 80miles(130Km/H)
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Hurricane Katrina
- Wind speed decreased as 70miles(110Km/H)(1:00am)
- Hurricane decreased as tropical depression
- Wind speed increased as 75miles(121Km/H)(5:00am)
- Hurricane increased as category 1
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Gov action
- Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco declared a state of emergency for the state of Louisiana
- Army National Guard and 8 Air National Guard aredeployed
- National Hurricane Center predicted that Hurricane Katrina would strike the town of Buras-Triumph, Louisiana
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Hurricane Katrina
- Hurricane Katrina increased by category 3 (5:00am)
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Gov action
- Officials ordered a mandatory evacuation of all of their residents and particularly those living in lower areas(5:00am)
- New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin announced a state of
emergency and a called for a voluntary evacuation(5:00am) - President Bush declared a federal state of emergency in Louisiana under the authority of the Stafford Act
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Hurricane Katrina
- Hurricane Katrina become category 4 (2:00am) 145miles(233Km/H)
- Hurricane Katrina become category 5 (7:00am) 215miles(344Km/H)
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Gov action
- 20,000 people entered the Dome
- The Louisiana National Guard had delivered three truckloads of water and seven truckloads of MRE's to the Superdome, enough to supply 15,000 people for three days
- President Bush declared a state of emergency in Alabama and Mississippi and a major disaster in Florida
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Hurricane Katrina
- Hurricane category changed as 4(7:00am) 125miles(205Km/H)
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Gov action
- New Orleans, water was seen rising on both sides of the Industrial Canal(8:00am)
- National Weather Service issues a Flash Flood Warning
- New Orleans officials confirmed a breach of the 17th Street Canal levee,There was also confirmation of breaches at two other canals.
- Begin evacuating any survivors that remained in the city.
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Hurricane Katrina
- Hurricane become tropical depression
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Gov action
- Governor ordered that all of New Orleans, including the Superdome, be evacuated due to the flooding of the city
- Planned sandbagging of the 17th Street Canal levee breach had failed and 85% of the city was underwater
- Gulfport, Mississippi to support the relief efforts
- Almost the entire New Orleans' police force to abandon search and rescue missions and turn their attention toward controlling the widespread looting and a curfew is placed in effect.
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Gov action
- US Senate passes a relief package
- A 50-member Canadian search-and-rescue team from Vancouver, British Columbia reached a flooded New Orleans suburb to help save trapped residents
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Gov action
- Government signs the $10.5 billion relief package after
Congress passed it
- Government signs the $10.5 billion relief package after
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Gov action
- 5,548 Army National Guard and 3,998 Air National Guard were deployed (28,546 total).
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Gov action
- After starting to allow residents back into the city, Mayor Nagin ordered yet another evacuation due to Hurricane Rita
- As of September 19, the official death toll stood at 973
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Gov action
- The official death toll was raised to 1,036, with 63 additional deaths recognized in Louisiana
- State-by-state death tolls: Louisiana 799, Mississippi 218, Florida 14, Alabama 2, Georgia 2, Tennessee 1
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Gov action
- Approximately 1.5 million people were evacuated from the
damaged areas in Louisiana, roughly 1 million have applied for hurricane-related federal aid, 30,000 are in out-of-state shelters, 46,400 are in state shelters and 972 people have perished in the storm - Official death toll was upgraded to 1,836 with more than 2,500 still missing
- Approximately 1.5 million people were evacuated from the
