What could we have done to prevent the amount of damage done by Hurricane Katrina?
2007-03-09 07:23:14 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Current Events
1) Don't build cities below sea level.
2) Elect local politicians who are not corrupt. (The money that was supposed to be used for levee improvement and maintenance 'vanished.')
2007-03-09 07:52:35 · answer #1 · answered by MikeGolf 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It amazes that human beings nevertheless don't understand why Katrina became into the sort of catastrophe. I even have grown up in college getting to grasp New Orleans could sooner or later be underwater. N.O. is a like a soup bowl located between a lake and a river. approximately 12 toes under sea point! The levies have been skipped over via our community government. Mississippi had gotten the brunt of the typhoon. N.O.'s levies broke b/c they could in basic terms withhold a catogory 3 hurricane. Dolly isn't something, what a tropical typhoon or a catagory a million hurricane. that isn't something. I even have been by way of infinite hurricanes. A cat 4 or 5 and additionally you need to evacuate.
2016-12-18 18:54:17 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People could have taken the storm warning seriously. Nature, unlike family, the courts and the government is unforgiving. People have know for over a hundred years that the area along the Gulf Coast was unsafe, especially the New Orleans area a lot of which was below sea level. They built there anyway and played the odds. Well, with Katrina they lost.
2007-03-09 07:41:27 · answer #3 · answered by don n 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
The funds had been allocated to build up the levees, but the branch of that city government swarms with corruption and the money was never used for that purpose. If they had done so, and hired engineering firms that would have factored in such an event while constructing plans to improve the levees, it may have cut down on the amount of damage.
2007-03-09 07:32:18 · answer #4 · answered by Inquisitive 4 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Ummm...let's see, run out into the ocean and commanded the storm to "Stop!"
Seriously, I'm so tired of seeing the government crucified for an act of nature. It's like some people actually think that the government could have stopped the hurricane if they wanted to. It's nature, people, it doesn't stop for anyone.
2007-03-09 07:56:32 · answer #5 · answered by RMarcin 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Spend the money for the levees like they should have over the years.
Also have a plan in place for the first 48 hours like they should have in the first place.
There is an old saying don't build you house on sinking sand.
New Orleans is going to go down not if but when.
2007-03-09 08:22:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We could have paid attention when to the warnings about the walls being in disrepair and the strong possibility of the city flooding.
This information was not kept secret.....it was a known fact for years.
2007-03-09 07:56:23 · answer #7 · answered by daljack -a girl 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is nothing we could have done that I can think of really other than getting the people out before the storm a lot sooner.
2007-03-09 07:31:03 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is nothing we could do besides get people out faster. Its not like you can stop a hurricane.
2007-03-09 07:36:19 · answer #9 · answered by tumble_chic 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
give Eve the 10 points
2007-03-09 08:37:10 · answer #10 · answered by Dick Richards 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋