2007-02-27 15:08:53 · 9 answers · asked by moon_fariey 3 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
Good question! I remember forecasters talking about Katrina making landfall after it turned in off of the tip of Florida, picked up speed, strength and filled in behind a system that had already tracked close to New Orleans. SO the point is, they had PLENTY of time to get out. Part of the reason people died and many were so miserable is either they didn't care, or didn't want to pay attention to the warnings being issued early on. It's like loading a 6 round clip with three bullets and after the trigger is pulled three times empty, you only then decide the next one is for real. The people of N.O. were extremely responsible for their own misery.
2007-02-27 15:27:09 · answer #1 · answered by commonsense 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well, I lived in New Orleans. We did get warning, just not enough! Only a couple days before the Hurricane came, Mayor Ray Nagin annonced that Katrina was going to be a strong hurricane and he demands a Mandatory Evacuation. My family and I evacuated to 3 states. Not Texas, they did not want anything to do with the people of New Orleans. Most people just didn't evacuate because they thought it was going to be like other hurricanes....some wind, some rain, nothing bad. What they expected was wrong. The levees could not withstand the strength of this hurricane. They broke...and flooded most of the city. Many drowned because they were not able to break out of their roof tops. Nobody was expecting such horrible thing to happen. It was a category 5 hurricane when it was coming, but when it hit New Orleans it was a category 3. My house had 18 feet of water inside. The bottom floor of my house was completly ruined. I hope I helped you out!!!! =)
2007-03-02 11:58:06 · answer #2 · answered by [S-More] 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Okay. I tracked the storm when it made landfall in south Florida Thursday night August 25. It was forecast to get up into the gulf and loop around back to Florida, Appalachicola area. However it continued to move west and didn't turn. I went to work and just happened to check at 4pm on Friday August 26 and saw that the landfall was then to be in Mississippi. I left work to people having a TGIF party. Please remember that this was a weekend and people weren't paying attention to news. When I left town Saturday morning I saw a crew working on house construction across the street - they weren't securing things, they hammering as usual. I know of people who didn't find out until Sunday. I do believe, miraculously, that pretty much everyone who wanted to leave and had the means to do so got out - almost a million people in the metro area - in 36 hours or so. There are many reasons, some good, some not so, why about 20% of the New Orleans population stayed.
2015-08-23 11:47:51 · answer #3 · answered by Elizabeth 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People in New Orleans didn't realize it was headed our way until very late. I went to work Friday, read that Katrina was going past Pensacola into FL, and went to sleep. I awoke at 9am on Saturday morning to find my mother going crazy, throwing our treasured belongings into bags, and yelling at us to pack up. Less than 40 hours later, Katrina made landfall.
About evacuating, Baton Rouge is about 60 miles west of New Orleans. Normally, about an hour will get you between the two cities. During Katrina, it was likely the distance between the two cities was 6+ hours.
2007-02-27 17:54:01 · answer #4 · answered by Steph F 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They had several days warning that the hurricane MIGHT make a direct hit. The projected paths had a wide landfall range.
Nobody believed that the levies would fail.
Hindsight is always 100%.
Foresight, not nearly so accurate.
2007-03-01 09:00:25 · answer #5 · answered by oohhbother 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
More than a couple of days. It was tracked and projected before it hit Florida. Thats when the elected officials in Louisiana should have been going through their " what if and what should we do" lists. Everyone knew what a CAT4-5 would do to NO. I saw a video for engineers about it over 10 years ago. It was just what happened.
2007-02-27 16:54:24 · answer #6 · answered by af_retired_horseman 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A couple days, they were warned a couple days early it could happen, repeatedly. The closer it got the more they were warned. I was worried for them they would not evaculate. I use to live there it inevitably going to happen sooner or later.
2007-02-27 15:11:56 · answer #7 · answered by char__c is a good cooker 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ask Nagin. And ask him why he didn't get his people out.
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2007-02-27 15:16:56 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
plenty, but nobody listened.
2007-02-28 14:23:32 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋