Introduction
Hurricane Katrina Hurricane Katrina) is the most destructive hurricane in US history. Happened at the end of August 2005. The heaviest damage was caused to New Orleans in Louisiana, where about 80% of the city's area was under water. The disaster killed 1,836 residents and caused economic losses of $125 billion (2007 estimate)
1. Meteorological history
The hurricane began to form on August 23 in the Bahamas. Before the hurricane reached the US coast, it was classified as Danger Level 5 on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale. About 12 hours before hitting the coast, the hurricane weakened to Category 4. The wind speed during the hurricane reached 280 km/h (according to other reports, 62 m/s (≈223 km/h)). On August 27, 2005, it passed over the Florida coast near Miami and turned towards the Gulf of Mexico.
2. Preparation
As the hurricane moved towards the Gulf of Mexico, the evacuation of personnel from oil platforms began. Airplanes were evacuated from military bases in Mississippi and Florida, and two ships left port. US President George W. Bush declared the states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida a natural disaster area.
On Sunday, August 28, 2005, the mayor of New Orleans declared a mandatory evacuation. The mass evacuation of people caused heavy traffic jams on highways. More than a million people, about 80% of the local population, fled the city and its surroundings. Long queues formed in front of shops and gas stations. Refugees tried to stock up on water, food and gasoline.
However, not all residents were able to evacuate. Tens of thousands of city residents lived below the poverty line and did not have money for travel or hotels. Public transport stopped working, and it was extremely difficult to leave the city without your own car. About 150 thousand people remained in New Orleans, mostly residents of poor areas and blacks. On August 28, city authorities offered the Superdome indoor stadium as shelter for those remaining in the city. About 30 thousand people sought refuge in the Superdome.
3. Consequences
On Monday, August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina reached the southeastern coast of the United States in the area of Louisiana and Mississippi. Its coverage area included the state of Louisiana, south and central Mississippi, southern Alabama, western Georgia, and western and southern Florida.
3.1. Louisiana
70% of New Orleans lies below sea level, the city is surrounded on three sides by water: the Gulf of Mexico, the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain.
On August 29, the levees that protected New Orleans were broken in several places. The city and coastline began to flood. The roof of the Superdome was damaged by strong winds. Rescue of people from flooded areas was carried out using boats and helicopters.
MississippiIn the coastal areas of Mississippi, small communities were flooded. Others
800 thousand people were left without electricity and telephone communications.
The officially confirmed number of victims was 1,407 people, according to later data 1,600, of which more than 720 were in New Orleans; in addition, as of December 2005, 47 people were missing. During the rescue operations (September 2005), assumptions were made about many thousands or tens of thousands of victims, but they were not confirmed.
According to a survey by the American magazine Newsweek, only 38% of respondents approved of the activities of Bush and his administration and how they dealt with the consequences of the disaster. According to the results of a survey conducted in September 2005 by the Pew Research Center (English) Russian. Bush's approval rating was 40 percent.
3.4. Crime
On August 30, CNN reported mass looting in the city. According to the television station, "hundreds and hundreds of people" in the area of Canal Street and on the border of the French Quarter are breaking windows in stores and taking goods from them.
On September 1, the media reported the shelling of a city hospital. According to the doctor, the hospital was shelled several times. The shooting took place while patients were being loaded for transportation; earlier, boats carrying patients were fired upon, one of which capsized.
On September 1, a representative of the US Federal Emergency Management Agency announced a temporary cessation of rescue efforts due to criminal attacks. According to a Coast Guard spokesman, rescuers are avoiding areas where gunfire is heard.
The looters were shot and left lying on the street with a sign saying “looter.”
4. Damage
Economic damage amounted to $125 billion (estimate, 2007)/
The US Congress has allocated $110 billion to restore the affected areas.
As of August 2006, more than 100 thousand families were living in trailers due to homelessness.
5. Actions of the authorities
As of September 8, 43 thousand US National Guard soldiers, 4 thousand coast guard personnel and about 15 thousand regular army personnel participated in the rescue operation in the disaster zone.
The actions of government officials were criticized. Senator from Louisiana, Republican David Vitter, gave the Bush administration the lowest grade for the government's efforts to eliminate the consequences of the disaster. In September 2005, American director and public figure Michael Moore, in an open letter, accused the country's leadership of cutting spending on engineering troops, which, in his opinion, led to dire consequences. Moore also noted:
On the day the hurricane hit the city, Mr. Bush, John McCain (Senator) and their rich friends treated themselves to cake. And then throughout the day, Bush played a guitar that some country singer had given him. And all this while New Orleans was drowning in water.
In 2006, about 60 percent of US residents, according to public opinion polls, were pessimistic about the authorities' ability to withstand natural disasters.
6. Flooded New Orleans
7. Sources
Economic damage from a hurricane
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The southeastern coast of the United States is recovering from a daily wait for the apocalypse in the form of Hurricane Katrina, which, since its formation over the Atlantic Ocean, managed to rise to a “catastrophic” rating and then weaken to a tropical storm. Although the most pessimistic forecasts of meteorologists that the hurricane would literally wash away the largest city in Louisiana, New Orleans, did not come true, Katrina left behind a large (to what extent is still unknown) number of victims and damage, which, according to preliminary estimates, will be the largest in US history.
In a sad remnant
Hurricane Katrina affected Louisiana, south and central Mississippi, southern Alabama, western Georgia and western and southern Florida. According to unconfirmed reports, about 80 people could have become victims of the disaster in Harrison County alone on the coast of Mississippi. Officially, 11 deaths were reported in Florida, three in Louisiana, two in Alabama and one in Georgia. These figures suggest that Katrina was the deadliest hurricane in the United States in the last hundred years. Emergency services have yet to reach flooded and debris-strewn areas in Louisiana and Mississippi, where the heaviest losses are expected. In Alabama and Georgia, the numbers most likely will not change fundamentally, since careless road users became victims of the disaster here.
It is also difficult to assess now the scale of destruction caused by hurricane winds and flooding. Authorities in Florida, where Katrina was a Category 1 hurricane on a scale of five, estimated damage from the hurricane at between $1 billion and $2 billion. However, this amount is incomparable to the losses that the United States suffered after Katrina reached the US coast in the area of Louisiana and Mississippi. According to preliminary expert estimates, material damage could reach $26 billion.
Hurricane Katrina's place in US history is yet to be determined based on the number of casualties and the extent of the destruction. Based on the pressure level at the hurricane's center, Katrina, with its 915 millibars when it reached Louisiana, ranks third on the list of the strongest hurricanes recorded since 1851. Second place goes to Hurricane Camille of 1969, and first place goes to the unnamed hurricane of 1935 (hurricanes were not given names until 1950).
Fate of Atlantis
The five-point hurricane danger scale was developed in the early 1920s by Herbert Saffir and Robert Simpson. The criteria for determining the degree of danger of a hurricane are wind speed, wave height, and the effect on ground objects and the coastal strip.
"Katrina" formed over the ocean on August 24 and its first blow was taken by Florida, where about a million people were left without power as a result. The wind speed of a category 1 hurricane reaches 153 kilometers per hour, and this was enough for trees, road signs, and roof fragments to begin falling onto the ground and power lines.
As the hurricane moved towards the Gulf of Mexico, the evacuation of personnel from the oil platforms located there began. In total, workers from eighteen platforms went to the ground and, as it turned out, not in vain. Three drilling rigs were unmoored during the hurricane, one of them, located in the area of Mobile Bay, Alabama, crashed into a bridge. In addition, aircraft were evacuated from military bases in Mississippi and Florida. Two frigates weighed anchor and left the port
Over the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico, Katrina, unexpectedly for experts, turned into a destructive force, which was classified as a hurricane of the highest category of danger with a maximum wind speed of up to 250 kilometers per hour. By order of US President George W. Bush, the states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida were declared a natural disaster zone. The storm turned north and headed straight for New Orleans, Louisiana.
View of Hurricane Katrina from Space, photo Reuters
70 percent of this city lies below sea level, while it is surrounded by water on three sides - the Gulf of Mexico, the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain. Built in a lowland, New Orleans is protected by a whole system of dams and embankments, but the highest of them reaches a height of 4.5 meters, while, according to the worst forecasts of experts, the waves with the arrival of a hurricane should have risen to 8 meters. If the brunt of the hurricane had fallen on New Orleans and its strength had remained the same, 80 percent of the city would have been under water.
Get out of town!
Expecting the worst, city mayor Ray Nagin announced a general evacuation on Sunday, August 28. As the hurricane approached, the authorities' concern grew and in the end one of the representatives of the local leadership, without mincing words, ordered residents to “pack up their things and get out of the city.” More than a million people followed the authorities' advice, that is, about 80 percent of the local population. In order to make it easier to leave the city, one-way traffic was introduced on the main highways, but it was not possible to completely avoid traffic jams; they resolved only by the morning of August 29. During the evacuation to the state capital, Baton Rouge, the first, albeit indirect, victims of the hurricane in Louisiana appeared - three elderly residents of a local nursing home could not stand the stress.
Another eight thousand people took refuge in the city's largest indoor stadium, the Superdome. The last person entered the sports arena building at about 11 pm on August 28 local time (7 am on August 29 Moscow), when the epicenter of the hurricane had not yet reached the US coast. People spent the entire night in the stands, experiencing, according to the National Guard soldiers accompanying them and representatives of the stadium management, almost no discomfort. Problems began at dawn, when the building went dark and the off-grid generators were only able to provide dim lighting. At the same time, there was no need to think about air conditioners.
However, it became truly alarming when at about 9 a.m. on August 29, two metal sheets were torn off from the roof of the building, resulting in two through holes, each about two meters long, formed in the roof. The safety of people was under threat, however, according to eyewitnesses, they did not panic, but simply moved from their seats, onto which water was pouring from the height of a 19-story building. It was reported that 600 of them needed medical care and another 400 had already been sent to the city hospital. It is known that two of those who took refuge under the roof of the stadium did not survive the hurricane, but the building structure withstood the blow of the elements.
Mississippi in the water
At 9 a.m., Katrina had already been moving north along the coast for three hours. By 6 a.m., when the hurricane reached the coast in the Louisiana area, the wind speed had decreased slightly - to 225 kilometers per hour gusts - and therefore its danger category was reduced to four. To the relief of New Orleans residents, the center of Katrina moved east of the city, towards the Mississippi coast, and passed about 20 kilometers from the city.
Thanks to this, New Orleans' water barrier system remained largely intact, although two dams - in the eastern and western parts of the city - were still damaged, as were several pumping stations. However, even with this scenario, 40 percent of the city was flooded, with water levels reaching seven and a half meters in some places. 800 thousand people in the New Orleans area were left without power, and restoring power lines could take weeks. Due to the failure of the water supply system, the water supply has been disrupted; authorities are warning residents to boil water before drinking.
On the streets you can see collapsed brick facades, “skyscrapers” with gaping holes where windows should have been. In empty residential buildings and supermarkets left without security, looters are operating, to whom the military police sent to the disaster area have already declared war. The authorities directly state that the “vultures” will be treated without ceremony, and they will be held accountable for their actions according to the law.
It is not yet known when residents of the Louisiana coast will be able to return to their homes. People who survived the disaster at the Superdome stadium are still inside, and security guards are afraid to open doors and windows, despite the extreme stuffiness. In addition to New Orleans, mass evacuations were announced in a number of other counties in the state. According to Jefferson County Sheriff Harry Lee, local residents will not be able to return home for at least a week. By the way, the day before, when the hurricane was still raging in the area, the sheriff reported, citing eyewitness accounts, that a residential building in which there could have been people collapsed in the area.
However, the fate of New Orleans and its neighboring parishes of Louisiana seems enviable compared to the coastal areas of Mississippi. Small towns located there, in particular Biloxi, were completely flooded. As can be seen in video footage taken from helicopters, water covers residential buildings up to the roofs. State Governor Haley Barbour said the “destruction there is horrendous” and the reported death toll of 80 people is likely to rise. He also could not assess the scale of the destruction, noting that rescuers have not yet been able to reach areas where the situation is most urgent.
Apparently, residents of the coastal areas of Mississippi did not have time to properly prepare for the arrival of the hurricane, since the epicenter of the disaster turned to the northeast only a few hours before the arrival of hurricane winds and water flows on the coast.
Currently, Katrina, having turned into a tropical storm, is located over the state of Mississippi, 55 kilometers northeast of the city of Tupelo. The storm is moving northeast at a speed of 29 kilometers per hour, with wind gusts in the area of its spread reaching 80 kilometers per hour. Katrina is expected to reach Ohio and Illinois. On the path of a fading hurricane, small tornadoes appear in places. What was left behind was a water desert and more than a dozen dead people who refused or did not have time to leave their homes.
Ekaterina Rogozhnikova
In 2005, an event occurred in New Orleans that will forever remain in history and will be a reminder that man is not able to control nature and is not always able to cope with the consequences of its destruction. We present to your attention essays by survivors of this disaster:
Call from New Orleans
Just now I talked for half an hour with a comrade who escaped from New Orleans.
I will reproduce it close to the test:
"This ***! I simply could not imagine anything like this. When the authorities said “We must evacuate!” Most of the townspeople scored *** as usual. Then you will have to leave five times a year. They are usually evacuated from all sorts of towns and Bedonvilles. Villages in general. Because here in the south, 90% of private houses are just plywood with cardboard and plastic. The most durable part is the stairs. The rest can be driven through by car if desired. This is what usually blows them away. And in Orleans there are mostly stone and concrete buildings. Usually no one left them. We bought water, food and beer and watched the show “Element” for two or three days. The fact that this time it will be completely different from before, the trend began in full force only within a day. People began to realize that **** was approaching! And then something began that cannot be described in a fairy tale. Wild mess! “Mars attacks” - in kind. All roads are jammed tightly. It took 10 hours for my friend to leave the city. Without a car, there’s no point in twitching at all. Public transport has stopped. As a result, probably a quarter of the people remained in the city. There are especially many blacks - most of them live poorly, and they simply have nowhere to go...
About the situation in his words:
Water completely covered the city. About 50% underwater. All communication systems were flooded. There is no light, no connection, no water. Satellite phones and several cell phones are working, where the batteries have not yet died. But the most important thing is that the entire sewer system is flooded and the whole city is naturally filled with shit. Everything in refrigerators is rotting, water stands on the streets from three meters to a meter, the earth becomes limp and turns into a swamp. In the first days you could still walk, but now if there is a lawn under your feet, you also fall into the mud. The stench is wild. A mixture of urine, g%%na, burning and rotten meat. The streets became canals. Every now and then the wind slowly carries the corpses of all kinds of animals along the large streets. What animals are there! In the first days, human corpses floated like logs. I saw three. A fat old black woman in diapers, a white man with a broken head, and someone completely unrecognizable. In the mud and warmed up. My Italian neighbor pulled out a black woman. For two days it lay on the roof of the veranda. And then she disappeared - I thought they found us and took her away. *** there! She stank so much that Franco was forced to tie her to the door and let her continue swimming. Franco stands alone. He sent his family, but he stayed to defend the house. There are about ten such “watchmen” around me. But they say there are also those who remained with their entire families. Especially in the center in high-rise buildings and generally in stone houses.
During the day it is generally quiet. In our area, there was nothing to rob except small shops. Our “rats” - that’s what we call them - appear with darkness. 90 percent are blacks. Mostly young, but there are also healthy men. There are even women. They float on homemade rafts or inflatable boats made from their pools. Three to five people. They quietly swim up to the house and listen - if there are no people there - they break out the windows and begin to rummage and row everything. Especially good equipment, expensive clothes and all sorts of stashes, safes. And here, if you don’t immediately drive them away by shooting, it’s better to hide and sit out. In the house, out of fear, they begin to shoot without hesitation. Franco has a walkie-talkie. He contacts his brothers. There are two of them living here in the city. And everyone remained to guard the houses. Franco says that yesterday, in the lake area - one of the prestigious areas, by the way, where his brother Nicolo is holed up - an old man was shot dead who was trying to drive the “rats” out of the house. Just out of fear. But for now, things have not gone beyond the looting of houses and shops. But we often have to shoot at night.
But in the center there is just war. But not between the authorities and the bandits, but between the gangs. Immediately after the hurricane, blacks looted gun stores and now there is a sea of unregistered weapons on their hands. Moreover, anyone. Most stores had their own collections. And there is automatic and whatever. Now there is a war for supermarkets and boutiques. In the first two days, anyone could shop, but now everything is divided between the blacks and they sort things out among themselves every now and then. You can hear the gunfire even from here.
Over four days, helicopters flew over us three times. They shouted something into a megaphone and booed. Nobody needs anyone. Save yourself as best you can.
The police and other authorities ***** are not visible at all. The local policemen fucked with their families, and in official cars with flashing lights. Wow, ***, power resource!
They say there are police somewhere else in the city, but what can they do against such mass lawlessness?
Americans are like children. The survival rate of the people is at the kindergarten level. Everyone stupidly lives on purchased supplies of food and water. The last one is a pipe. Ends quickly. And a form of hysteria begins. People are running on the roofs. They yell, scream, and raise their hands to the sky. Like they're dying of thirst. I tried to explain that if it’s really bad, you need to light a fire and boil any water, and with basic skill, just distill the steam. They shake their heads - it’s impossible. And again - howl! If they don’t start saving them, then half the people here will go crazy. The history is wild all around.
On the fourth day I decided it was time to get the fuck out of there. Especially when I found out that the dam was washed away. This means that fishing in the city for the next year is simply n***a. The dam has been washed away. Even if it is restored, the water will not go anywhere. It is simply not realistic to assemble it with pumps. She's all around. In all pits and basements. It’s better not to see what will soon begin here, when all sorts of crap like mosquitoes and other rubbish will breed in this rot. What will happen if all sorts of bacteria multiply and an epidemic begins? In general, I figured it out, and began to prepare for the swim.
Following the example of the blacks, having searched the house, I found in the attic an old inflatable children's pool - a circle one and a half meters in diameter, apparently left over from previous tenants. I put some clothes in a garbage bag, a laptop and documents in another, and another one on top for an airtight seal. I made a paddle from a long mop handle and a cutting board. Well, I set sail. Floated past Franco. He shouted that as soon as his brother came for him, he would also run away. And in general, they say, you need to hire a good boat, take out your things and move. He doesn't want to risk his family.
At the corner of the street I saw a military amphibian in the distance. He started screaming. They swam up. They turned out to be the National Guard. They lifted me onto the body. We were greeted gloomily. Everyone looked sideways at the bags. They apparently decided that he was a looter. I had to print it out and show it. Calm down. They gave me a bottle of water. They said that in the morning an operation to bring troops into the city and large-scale evacuation should begin. But everyone seems to be waiting for the command to declare a state of emergency. ***! **should I wait? Now it will be too late to introduce anything.
What can I say as a result - the director of “Rain” (edit by V.Sh.) is Nostradamus! ***, that’s how it was! Like in the movies..."
Here's the story. Maybe you didn’t write something down or didn’t convey it verbatim. But excuse me here. What is called “received by phone!”
"Parinov P. - flood New Orleans"
New Orleans. Hurricane Katrina and flooding. Memoirs of an eyewitness.
Pavel: In 2005 I was in New Orleans, as a student I went to earn extra money abroad. I felt Hurricane Katrina directly. Survived both a hurricane and a flood. I lived in the flooded city for about a week.
1. The reasons for the emergence of a survival situation.
The carelessness and flaws of the authorities of the state of Louisiana and the US federal government, who knew about the impending hurricane and could have taken certain actions to evacuate people from New Orleans and its suburbs, maintain and strengthen the dam on Lake Pontchartrain, but did not do so. Some residents left in advance, because... There was a warning about a hurricane, but no one expected flooding and such consequences.
2. Consequences.
Everyone saw the consequences on TV and the Internet. Complete destruction of the city and its infrastructure, except for a few areas (about 80% of the city's area was under water). Looting, robbery, murder and rape. The population has a complete lack of communication with the outside world (with the exception of satellite communications from the authorities). Many old people, children, sick people living in one-story houses died without being able to escape.
3. Measures taken by the authorities.
The measures that the authorities took to eliminate the consequences did not justify themselves. Rescue operations began late. For those who lost everything, having managed to escape from the flood on the bridges (some “highways” (motorways) turned into them), food was dropped from helicopters. But people, often in a state of shock, could not even always take advantage of this help. Residents who wanted to evacuate from their homes, from the roofs of flooded shops and buildings, which rescuers took from bridges - they were taken to the Superdome stadium and to the local military airfield. Then, after some time, people were sent to the main airport in New Orleans. From there they were transferred to some other airport. from the states (for example, I ended up in San Antonio, Texas). After this, people fell into the hands of the Red Cross, where they were evacuated.
4. Mistakes made.
Arrogance of the authorities. Poor organization of assistance to victims.
Rescuers avoided visiting areas where gunfire was heard. Not very skillful and confident actions of the police and army. In the Superdome, where residents (about 45 thousand people in total) were taken, a small number of police officers (about 300 people) were unable to ensure the safety of people. The Polish students who worked with us and evacuated to the stadium before the flood were robbed and beaten, and the girls were raped. Impunity has given rise to outbreaks of violence, robbery and murder.
5. Recommendations.
I can say with confidence that it is possible to survive during such an emergency, and it will not even be difficult if a person does not give in to his emotions and can control himself. Together with a group of 14 citizens of the Russian Federation, one Belarusian and one Bulgarian woman, he stayed in a “duplex” (two-story house) for more than a week. To say that we did not experience any difficulties would be an understatement.
How events developed.
First there was a hurricane. What was happening on the street in the confined space of the home caused panic. It was scary, especially when a huge tree fell on our house. Then the dam broke and sea water (the lake flowed into the ocean) began to flood the city. The water rose 4 meters. Such a rapid flood caused a primal fear in us. Some of us even tried to cut a way out onto the roof. When the hurricane ended, the water level dropped to 3 meters. The first day we remained in place and did not move anywhere, expecting to be rescued. But then, realizing that they needed to survive on their own, they began to act.
On the 1st day of the flood there was not even food. But the Russian man will not disappear anywhere. By the end of 1 day we had food, water, and everything a person needs during a flood. (On the second day we even fried chicken on the roof of the house).
The rescuers weren’t really trying to save us. Only on the 4th day, when they approached us by boat, they offered to leave, taking with them only one small backpack with the basic necessities. We didn’t want to be left without our things in a foreign country where we didn’t even know anyone. Having made a collective decision to stay put, we tried to provide ourselves with everything we needed.
The first thing we needed was drinking water and food (we got it at a nearby gas station); warm clothes (temperature contrast: heat during the day up to 50 degrees and cold at night about 12 - 15 and very high humidity, like in a bathhouse). Medicines and means of self-defense (as cases of looting and violent open clashes over the right to possess food and other means of salvation have become more frequent). First, we got to the gas station, where we found the first thing we needed, by swimming. Then, inflatable mattresses were used to navigate the flooded streets.3 When the water subsided, they waded across. At the same time, there was a real threat of serious damage from various debris hidden under water, as well as the threat of attack from the animal world (snakes and alligators that escaped from the farm during flooding). In search of the necessary property, 4-5 people swam. They only took knives and flashlights with them. Weapons were left in the house for those who remained to guard the property. They had to repeatedly fight with thieves and robbers. Moreover, all of us, without exception, had to participate in fights with black marauders. But in fairness, I note that not all Americans acted dishonestly. A professor at the University of Orleans (by the way, also black) helped us a lot.
When obtaining a livelihood, we were faced with the problem of lack of lighting in buildings and the need to have tools (even for simply opening packages of goods). At first we used lighters, moving chest-deep in water in the flooded premises of a hypermarket, then we used flashlights (headlamp ones are very convenient) and CHI glow sticks (chemical light sources). HIS was used when swimming in water to control the space around oneself and not suddenly encounter dangerous swimming animals. Therefore, I recommend that you always have with you in emergency circumstances, at least a knife and a flashlight.
They ate what they got in stores. We drank only bottled water, because... within three days, the water around turned into a tropical malarial swamp, with all the infection that could be found. “Snickers” satisfied my hunger well (5-6 were enough for a day to fill me up). I do not recommend eating dry food (such as chips) if there is other food. This is detrimental to health.9
Under these conditions, there were diseases. Basically, these are intestinal disorders and various injuries (cuts and bruises). A very important issue is hygiene and maintaining basic cleanliness of the body, especially in hot climates. In such conditions, no antiseptic will help. Any scratch threatens infection and gangrene. In order not to get lousy, you need to use all possible means: sanitary napkins, perfumes, household chemicals and a basic shower. All this is the prevention of infectious and other diseases. I myself, after the evacuation, fell ill with a terrible sore throat. To avoid catching a cold, you need to properly distribute the layers of clothing you wear on your body. This is especially important when you move, in conditions of sudden daily temperature changes, with nervous tension and a weakened body. We warmed ourselves mainly by clothes and a fire.
It is not recommended to engage in looting (except for obtaining food and the minimum necessary). Since the authorities introduced martial law, and the police shot the looters on the spot. Marauders, hungry for other people's goods, appeared on the second day of the flood. Residents remaining in their homes also fired at anyone who approached them (fearing looters). In general, in an extreme situation, the psychology of people’s behavior changes greatly - they begin to become wild. Out of impunity, people start killing each other. Those who do not become beasts, in order to survive, adopt an “amoeba-like” state and do not react to anything. I saw how people simply went crazy after losing loved ones or all their acquired property.10
Another problem is the psychology of survival in a team with an autonomous existence. Over time, everyone becomes embittered to the point of stabbing. Even in our friendly team, sometimes serious clashes arose. The reasons are banal - food obtained by others, bad mood, inconsistency of views.
While moving around the city, we communicated with people and collected information in every possible way about ways of salvation. And when we realized that there was nothing more to wait, we put our things in large trunks, loaded them onto inflatable beds and went to the highway, from where the rescuers took us. We had difficulty convincing them that our trunks were hand luggage. We were taken by helicopter to a military airfield and left to our own devices. I had to sleep on bare concrete for some time, because... there were no conditions for refugees. They slept on a pile of their clothes.
The fact that we survived in a foreign country under these conditions, did not die at the hands of looters, did not get fatal diseases, did not die from hurricanes and floods - I consider it a great success and nothing less than help from Above.
Let me remind you of a few rules for surviving during floods and in emergencies.
Do not lose composure and the will to live.
Have the necessary minimum knowledge and skills for survival.
Worry about your own salvation.
Collect all available information by any means. Monitor everything that is happening around you and everyone around you.
Do not trust people completely (even your own).
Arm yourself if the situation is out of control of the authorities.
Act according to circumstances.
When there is a flood, find the highest points in the area.
In advance, if possible, select people with whom you will “survive.” A team of friends and like-minded people is needed, because... You can’t survive alone (50x50, and even less in difficult conditions).
In any conditions, at any cost - REMAIN HUMAN and FIGHT TO THE END!
The most important thing in any emergency is not to lose composure, not to succumb to panic, which affects the majority of the population and, most importantly, women (this does not apply to the women in our group), and to improvise. Believe me, I know this for sure.
Parinov P. (edition and additions, based on the report in the “TsSP” (in italics) - Strutinsky V.V.)
Stories from survivors: we could have been killed or raped at every turn
In the unreal silence of New Orleans, there is an unbearable smell of decaying corpses, which permeates everything: clothes, skin, it corrodes the eyes, it is felt in the mouth. New Orleans is the city of the dead, writes La Repubblica (translation on the website Inopressa.ru).
The stories of those who survived these four days of horror are shocking. It was not just the violence of the stronger and better organized over the weaker and defenseless. These were physical and psychological torture, manic claims, rules established by the leaders of gangster groups. Four days without law, which turned into the apotheosis of cruelty. Very quickly the bosses turned into the masters of this theater of suffering. Hundreds of frightened families, elderly people accustomed to a measured and simple life, students, shop assistants, brides, boys and girls, mothers and fathers lived these four days and four nights with bandits and thugs, the publication writes.
Life at the Superdome became hell. 200 of the 1,300 police officers serving in New Orleans deserted. They lost their homes, lost their relatives, dirty and exhausted, they were attacked by bandits. They did not patrol the streets and protect the city from robbers.
There was no food in the Superdome, and what little there was was worth its weight in gold. The same can be said about water, cigarettes, blankets, pillows, and medicines. “We had to get organized,” says Dave, a 20-year-old city university student. “To protect food, to sleep, to wash. We kept watch so we could sleep. Someone brought a gun with them, and it was always kept in plain sight.”
But the real nightmare was the shower. There were 30 shower stalls located in the basement of a large NBA stadium. They became the site of attacks and rapes. These seem like fantastic stories, but the local police reports contain terrible facts. For example, 37-year-old Africa Broomfield, who is obviously dark-skinned - like the vast majority of those facing the hurricane - put aside her shame and said the following. “It was impossible to go into the shower alone,” she told police and then reporters. “Anyone who decided to go there alone risked being raped or killed.” And so the people, tired of the incessant violence, found courage and rebelled, bringing about justice themselves. The rapist was identified, captured, and lynched, the newspaper writes.
There was a lot of rape. The most common victims were women, but there were reports of attacks on men and children. And not only in the soul - very often in front of everyone. Locking 23 thousand people in a stadium for three days is like smoking in a powder magazine, the publication writes.
“There were no rules,” says Nick, 45, a fisherman who has repeatedly defended his 14-year-old daughter. “It was like being in prison.” Worse than prison. The strongest commanded. Everything was sold: drugs, weapons, food, jewelry, watches, even medicine.” The more organized ones left at night, taking advantage of the darkness, to get prey. Then they returned to the Superdome and trading began. There were constant clashes. “We were closed, blocked in this hell,” Nick recalls. “Even if you wanted to leave, it was impossible.” The shelter that saved us from the hurricane has turned into a death trap.”
The international airport has already recorded 200 deaths. But not everyone became victims of Hurricane Katrina. Dozens of missing people were reported missing, only to have their bodies found in ditches, on sidewalks, under bridges, in houses, and in trash containers. They were shot with rifles or pistols, the newspaper writes.
IN August 2005 year, the southern states of the United States were hit by a powerful hurricane " Katrina" In a few days he swept along the coast Florida, Mexican the bay and the state of Louisiana, destroying everything in its path. The state's main city was flooded Louisiana-New Orleans 2005 , flooded and destroyed communities in coastal areas of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. More than 1,000 people died.
Katrina is the eleventh "named" extremely severe hurricane in
year of the Atlantic season. For comparison, according to statistics, over the past 60 years the average number of “named” hurricanes did not exceed ten.
08/25/2005 Storm Katrina formed in the Bahamas. It began to quickly move north and strengthened to the strength of a tropical hurricane. The hurricane reached the coast
August 23 at a speed of 80 miles per hour. Katrina was expected to increase in strength, but meteorologists reported wind speeds had dropped to seventy miles per hour. Then Tropical Storm Katrina strengthened again to a minor hurricane. at a speed of 80 miles per hour. Katrina was expected to increase in strength, but meteorologists reported wind speeds had dropped to seventy miles per hour. 25-th of August The National Hurricane Center in Miami rated Hurricane Katrina as the lowest category of strength on the US five-point scale. Due to the approach of tropical hurricane Katrina to the east coast of Florida (USA), all passenger flights were canceled at Miami and Fort Lauderdale airports for the next 24 hours. According to forecasters, Katrina's main impact was expected to occur late in the evening. or in the morning 26th An official storm warning was issued in the evening. About five million people live in this area.
The governor of Florida declared a state of emergency throughout the state. At that moment, the wind speed at the epicenter of Katrina was 75 miles per hour, then increased to 120 km/hour.
At that time, Hurricane Katrina was moving “relatively slowly”, which is why it was then assigned only the lowest category one.
08/26/2005
Katrina struck a densely populated area of coastline between Hallandale Beach and North Miami Beach. In the hurricane zone, wind gusts reached 130 km/h, and wave heights reached 4.5 meters. Strong winds tore down power lines.
The hurricane was accompanied by significant rainfall. The hurricane has already killed three (according to other sources, four) people in Fort Lauderlade, Plantation and Cooper City. Then it became known that seven people had died. A 25-year-old man died when a high-voltage cable, severed by a falling tree, fell onto his car. Another young man was crushed by a falling tree. The third, who was driving his car, crashed into a tree while trying to avoid debris on the road. Five others, members of the Larsen family - a family with three school-age children - were considered missing. Later they were discovered on an island surrounded on all sides by water. Rescuers spotted Edward and Bettina Larsen along with their three children while flying over the affected area 25 kilometers north of the tip of Florida.
According to the state's energy company, more than 700 (1000 or more according to other sources) thousand people were left without electricity. The hurricane also brought down an overpass under construction on Florida Highway 836 west of Miami. The damage from Hurricane Katrina, which hit Florida, was estimated at that time from $600 million to $2 billion, according to preliminary estimates by independent experts. The hurricane reached the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico in the morning November 26
. By two o'clock US East Coast time, Katrina's center was located directly over the Gulf, forty miles southwest of the Marco Islands and sixty miles northeast of Key West. Long-term monitoring from the National Hurricane Center showed that Katrina was expected to make landfall a second time. August 27 in the evening and early in the morning August 30.
“We are extremely concerned that the hurricane is moving deep into the Gulf of Mexico,” admitted Max Mayfield, director of the center. at a speed of 80 miles per hour. Katrina was expected to increase in strength, but meteorologists reported wind speeds had dropped to seventy miles per hour. Expectations of a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico pushed oil prices to new highs. Contracts for the supply of Texas oil reached $68 per barrel in morning trading on Friday. Let us remember that the lion's share of the oil consumed in America is produced there.
Knee-deep in water - this is what Miami, one of the largest seaports in Florida, looked like. Hurricane Katrina was already raging in the Gulf of Mexico. The streets of the city were flooded, trees and road signs blown down by the storm were everywhere. Schools were closed and airports were closed.
Local authorities opened shelters that provided victims with first aid and housing. People are forced to swim across.
08/27/2005
Authorities in several southeastern US states have issued storm warnings due to the approach of Hurricane Katarina.
Experts from the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Florida, reported that the hurricane had strengthened significantly as it passed over the Gulf of Mexico last night, and now scientists have assigned it a third category of danger on a five-point scale. Katrina's wind force then reached 185 km/. The epicenter of the hurricane, which continued to move westward at a speed of about 11 km/h, was then located approximately 350 km west of Key West.
And many areas of Florida are still in the water. As experts expected, Katrina was supposed to hit US territory again in the area between the states of Louisiana and Florida.
Residents of low-lying areas were asked to evacuate. The authorities advised tourists to leave the coastal zone, and local residents to strengthen their homes and stockpile supplies of drinking water and fuel.
Oil production in the Gulf of Mexico has dropped by more than a third due to the approaching Hurricane Katrina. The United States produces about a quarter of all oil and gas extracted in the country in the Gulf of Mexico: the volume of production of “black gold” reaches approximately 1.5 million barrels per day, and gas production - 12.3 billion cubic meters per day. On Saturday, oil companies had to reduce oil production by 563,000 barrels per day and gas production by 1.9 billion cubic meters per day.
08/28/2005
The mayor of the main city of the American state of Louisiana, New Orleans, located below sea level and with a population of half a million people, Ray Nagin ordered the forced evacuation of residents in connection with the approaching Hurricane Katrina, which was already assigned the 5th, highest category. The wind force at the center of the hurricane reached 260-280 km per hour.
Residents of Louisiana began to leave their homes. The streets of New Orleans were in turmoil. Residents abandoned their houses, got into cars and rushed away from the city - however, this chaotic flight led to unprecedented traffic jams on major highways, cars parked closely together, traffic flow moves very slowly. Ten fortified shelters were prepared for those who were unable to evacuate due to health reasons, including one at the Superdome, which can accommodate up to 15,000 people.
Three elderly people have died in Louisiana. People could not stand the evacuation: one person died in a church, another on a bus, and a third in a hospital.
According to meteorologists, the states of Mississippi, Florida, Alabama and Louisiana were also expected to be in Katrina's path. A state of emergency was declared here too. Residents of coastal Mississippi began to leave their homes. It was no longer possible to find free rooms in any of the hotels in the interior of the state - they were all pre-booked several days before.
In the Gulf of Mexico, all work on oil production platforms was completely stopped, and the port was closed.
08/29/05
"Katrina" slightly changed its course and took a little east of the trajectory that scientists had drawn for it. As a result, the main blow fell not on New Orleans, but on the coastal areas of Louisiana and Mississippi. And yet the situation in the city is dramatic.
Children floating on mattresses through the streets of their city, people wandering through the rooms of houses whose roofs were blown off.
About 10 thousand residents of New Orleans found refuge in the local indoor stadium "Superdome", which turned into a single island in the middle of the water pouring into the city - a kind of Noah's Ark. The entrance to it had been open since noon on Sunday, and at half past twelve at night, with the onset of curfew, its gates were closed.
During the hurricane, the wind tore off fragments of the roof from the largest stadium, the Superdome. Two through holes appeared in the roof through which water poured. People had to vacate five sectors in the stadium stands, but there was no panic among them.
The US National Weather Service, which is monitoring the progress of Hurricane Katrina, reported "total structural damage" in several urban areas of New Orleans (Louisiana). Many buildings in the city have lost their roofs and glass, and the streets are strewn with rubble. Severe flooding was reported in the port area. In the Terrytown neighborhood of New Orleans on Wright Avenue, an apartment building with people inside collapsed due to Hurricane Katrina. More than 400 thousand families were left without electricity.
The protective dam in the Industrial Canal area on Tennessee Street failed, causing flooding in the area.
The height of the waves that Katrina brought with it reached 8.5 meters in some areas of the city. Due to the lack of electricity, all pumping stations stopped working.
There have been incidents of looting in New Orleans. Groups of criminals of several dozen people each stole abandoned property from shops, offices and residential buildings.
The epicenter of the hurricane began to move towards the city of Biloxi (Mississippi), where power supply had already been cut off. Now there is almost nothing left of him. A 9-meter wave hit the city, eyewitnesses say.
The water, which is six to seven meters deep in some places, has inundated coastal areas of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama seven to ten kilometers from the normal coastline. Rescuers and National Guardsmen used helicopters to remove from the roofs of houses those who did not manage to evacuate from the disaster area in time. More than 1.3 million homes and other buildings lost power.
The death of 5 people is confirmed.
During Hurricane Katrina, an oil rig located in Mobile Bay, Alabama, lost its anchor and crashed into a bridge.
Two more platforms were drifting in the Gulf of Mexico.
08/30/2005
The hurricane has weakened significantly, turned into a cyclone accompanied by tropical rains, and is moving towards the central and northern states.
According to preliminary data, in Harrison County (Mississippi) alone, as a result of the impact of Hurricane Katrina, the death toll has already reached 50 people and could reach 80 people. There are about 65 dead in New Orleans.
Numerous airports in the American states most affected by Hurricane Katrina have not yet resumed operations due to safety concerns.
National Guard troops and military police units were called to New Orleans to assist with search and rescue efforts and provide security in areas where water continued to slowly rise. The day after Hurricane Katrina, the New Orleans Canal dam failed. As a result, streams of water from Lake Pontchartrain poured into the city streets. The authorities began to strengthen protective dams, through cracks in which water was constantly rising. 80% of New Orleans was still flooded with water, which in some places stood at a level of 7 meters. Those who refused or were unable to leave the city in advance now had to be rescued. People were removed from the roofs of houses and treetops, and evacuated by helicopter to specially created shelters. In the city, at least 30 buildings collapsed as a result of the hurricane, there was no electricity or drinking water, and food supplies were running out. Plumes of smoke were visible in some areas. The biggest problem for the authorities was the lack of communication.
In all affected areas, water supply and sewerage systems were destroyed, and there were accidents on power lines.
Experts estimate that damage from the hurricane could reach $25 billion.
08/31/2005
Oil prices reached a record $70.85 per barrel, gasoline prices rose by 20%, and gas by 4.7%. Cotton prices rose 2.3% due to concerns about the harvest in the southern US.
Copper has also risen in price.
The gradually weakening Katrina left behind hundreds of kilometers of flooded land and devastation. The most devastating blow was struck by the storm in the city of Biloxi in Mississippi. In New Orleans, an operation has begun to evacuate about 30 thousand people from a sports complex. At the same time, water from Lake Pontchartrain near New Orleans practically stopped flowing into the city, and the water level in the lake began to slowly decline.
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The infrastructure of New Orleans was completely destroyed, and, according to experts, the authorities had very little time left to remove residents from the city. If the population does not leave New Orleans within 72 hours, mass deaths will begin, rescuers warned. According to doctors, an outbreak of cholera and typhoid could occur in areas affected by the hurricane. There was further evacuation of the population. The first official data on hurricane deaths in New Orleans has been released. Officially, 196 people are considered dead due to Hurricane Katrina.
This is exactly how many bodies were delivered to city morgues over the past few days. Experts estimate damage from Katrina at $100 billion. The American Parliament, which has already allocated 10.5 billion to help the victims. 09/04/2005
American authorities finally managed to evacuate almost all the people from flooded New Orleans. 09/05/2005
According to preliminary estimates, 218 people became victims of the disaster, and in New Orleans this number was 59 people. 09/08/2005
More than 300 people have died in Mississippi from Hurricane Katrina, Gov. Haley Barbour said.
Consequences: The total volume of insurance payments is estimated at more than 60 billion dollars, and the total damage from the hurricane is 125 billion dollars. Half of these amounts will come from the consequences of the actual flooding of New Orleans. The severe destruction in the southern United States caused by Hurricane Katrina left up to 200 thousand families without their own housing for the next three to five years.
Why the hurricane happened and New Orleans drowned. Katrina The cause of the disaster that occurred in the most beautiful city of the American South should be sought not simply in the action of hurricanes." " And " Rita
", but in the specific weather conditions of the Gulf of Mexico and the characteristics of industrial production on the coast and in the gulf. Many pages in various publications have been covered recently about the hurricane." Catherine " And ""And how much more will appear about the hurricane" Many pages in various publications have been covered recently about the hurricane." The cause of the disaster that occurred in the most beautiful city of the American South should be sought not simply in the action of hurricanes." ", which gained almost the same power there - in the Gulf of Mexico. These two hurricanes of such intensity are an epoch-making event. Such powerful hurricanes in the Atlantic are observed extremely rarely. Until " Rita (1969)
"Over the past 65 years, only two category five hurricanes have reached the US coast. This is Camille" (1992)
and Hurricane Andrew Many pages in various publications have been covered recently about the hurricane.""Hurricane Rita continued this list and became the fourth hurricane of the fifth category. This combination of tragic circumstances gives rise to many rumors. Moreover, some American meteorologists put forward the idea that hurricanes Catherine, Rita and Ivan are actually in fact created by the hands of Russian scientists.
To establish the truth, we first answer the question, why do these monsters, like Amazonian pythons, periodically crawl from the Atlantic into the Gulf of Mexico? But because there are many oil rigs pumping oil. In addition, the largest river in the United States, the Mississippi, collects all surface-active dirt (soap, washing powder and other chemicals) from the continent and discharges them into the Gulf of Mexico. They pollute the surface waters of this almost closed water area. And an oil film and various soapy substances just one molecule thick reduce the evaporation of surface water by one fifth. The waters of the Gulf of Mexico are overheating - the depth of the upper layer with a temperature of about 30 degrees Celsius exceeds 100 meters!
There are similar water areas in the Pacific Ocean. This is the so-called “typhoon nest” in the northwestern part of the Pacific Ocean (Philippine Sea) and in the east - near the coast of California.
But in these water areas, the anomalous heat content of water is determined not only by pollution, but also by currents. In such regions, the natural balance of energy exchange between the ocean and the atmosphere is disrupted. There is also a counterclockwise loop current in the Gulf of Mexico. It absolutely does not follow from this that additional heat comes from the Caribbean Sea due to it. The waters of both the bay and the sea have the same heat content. But while the Gulf Stream carries the heat of the Caribbean Sea to higher latitudes, this does not happen in the almost closed Gulf of Mexico. Water is an excellent accumulator of solar energy. And the gigantic energy accumulated in the Gulf of Mexico is realized through hurricanes. This is a natural mechanism for heat sink in abnormally overheated waters of the World Ocean. The power of one Hurricane Katrina August 29
So why did New Orleans drown?
Indeed, this city is located about two meters below sea level. However, the city is located 60 km north of the Gulf of Mexico, on the banks of the Mississippi. Several dozen kilometers of levees protect New Orleans from the waters of nearby Lake Pontchartrain. As the American press writes, water rushed out of this lake through gaps in the destroyed dams and flooded the city. But in this case, the flood level should not exceed two meters. And eyewitness accounts indicate that the water level in the city reached 6-8 meters. Many pages in various publications have been covered recently about the hurricane." There is every reason to believe that the city was flooded by the waters of the Mississippi River. And that's why. The eye of the hurricane appeared right at the mouth of the Mississippi.
", which moved north, actually along the river. He blocked its flow. The fact is that in the “eye” of the hurricane, the diameter of which is almost one hundred kilometers, the pressure was significantly less, almost 110 mb, than outside. As a result, the water level it is more than a meter higher than the water surface surrounding the “eye”! And this hump of water blocked the flow of the Mississippi, it turned out something like a tsunami, only this single wave moved the “eye” of the hurricane towards Orleans. The water flow in the Mississippi is 19,000 cubic meters. meters per second. It is easy to calculate that in 6-8 hours of the hurricane's movement upstream, the waters of the Mississippi will flood an area of 100 square kilometers with a height of 4.1 to 5.5 meters. This is the main reason for the flooding of the city. " And " This effect is similar to the surge of water into the Gulf of Finland, the Neva and the flooding of St. Petersburg. Of course, rainfall and levee failures contributed to the flooding of New Orleans. But it was precisely this unlikely coincidence of the events listed above that drowned such a beautiful and large city. When the hurricane comes out"
Wrath of the Gods called "Katrina".
However, providence has its own plans. As they say, “man proposes, but God disposes.” Periodically, events happen that literally and figuratively destroy the established order of life and make us realize with horror that not everything depends on ourselves. And regardless of whether we recognize the Gods or not, their anger, unexpectedly falling, is able to change all our plans. Remember the funny and at the same time sad phrase of Pushkin: “You expect to live, and then you will die.”
Astrologers constantly come across people who express their bewilderment - what is happening, why do plane crashes, natural disasters, hurricanes or typhoons suddenly fall on our heads? Everything was fine, and then a rainstorm washed out the road to Toronto and all the phones in the area were cut off for a week. These days, acquaintances were flying to Toronto from Cuba, the windshield cracked, and the plane urgently began to land, not even having time to gain altitude. Their plane landed safely, but the second one, with which the same thing happened, could not be landed, and all passengers died. This August, you hear every now and then - there is a hurricane in Florida, Germany is in the water, in Switzerland they are sailing on boats, in Louisiana there is a natural disaster, a plane with passengers crashed... Once again a chill down the spine...
My God, what happens in the end?!
Laugh or not, but sometimes it really seems to me that this is nothing more than the Wrath of the Gods, who constantly remind us of their existence. Their warnings can be seen everywhere - in astrological charts, in deciphering symbols, and in events that usually precede misfortune, but we neglect the clues and, as a result, suffer from our narrow-mindedness. After all, if you make it a habit to contact an astrologer, any troubles can be avoided or, in any case, made much less effective.
Take, for example, the menacing Katrina that angrily tore through the southern coast of the United States. The lady, as they say, has a character, just like Shakespeare’s character in The Taming of the Shrew. Desperate, angry and willful. Her arrival was clearly visible on the astrological chart of the United States and in the symbols to which we habitually attach so little importance.
The first day of the hurricane's appearance was on August 23, which in itself is a very significant day. The ancient Romans celebrated Storm Katrina formed in the Bahamas. It began to quickly move north and strengthened to the strength of a tropical hurricane. a festival called Vulcanalia in honor of the God Vulcan, son of Jupiter and Venus. Both of these planets were active in the chart, and Jupiter also made an alarming conjunction with the Tail of the Dragon, which was a clear warning. This connection seemed to say: remember what happened on this day in the past, and be careful! Vulcan was the God not only of volcanoes and fire, but also of natural disasters. Because the Storm Katrina formed in the Bahamas. It began to quickly move north and strengthened to the strength of a tropical hurricane. Since 2005 was the first day for the astrological sign of Virgo, it could be concluded that this day would mark the beginning of a whole negative period. 1940
It is noted in history as dangerous: in On this day the Nazis began bombing London, 1942 August 23 1976
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IN 1987 On this day, a strong earthquake occurred in China, killing thousands of people. year, heavy rains and downpours in Bangladesh destroyed entire territories and also claimed the lives of thousands of people. August 23, 1992 2000 Hurricane Andrew flooded South Florida. It raged for exactly thirteen days and caused $36 billion in damage. Louisiana was also under attack, but, fortunately, there were not very many victims then - about 26 people. IN 2005 On this day, an Arab Airlines plane crashes into the Persian Gulf, killing 143 people. Happy day in history! IN
year, to all this was added a dangerous configuration on the planet of misfortunes, Mars, which made a square to Neptune, the planet of water. This was the beginning of Hurricane Katrina and the flooding. Storm Katrina formed in the Bahamas. It began to quickly move north and strengthened to the strength of a tropical hurricane. After Water is an excellent accumulator of solar energy. And the gigantic energy accumulated in the Gulf of Mexico is realized through hurricanes. This is a natural mechanism for heat sink in abnormally overheated waters of the World Ocean. The power of one Hurricane Katrina the aspect of Mars to Neptune continued to grow and gain strength. It reached its climax early in the morning
The astrological chart was an accurate reflection of what happened: Uranus in opposition to the Sun brought confusion as a result of an unexpected blow, the whole life of people (the Sun) was turned upside down. Saturn square Proserpina spoke of a cruel tragedy, the impact of which will be felt for a long time (Proserpina is a planet of long impact). Jupiter in conjunction with Venus and square to the Moon spoke of severe emotional shock. The horoscope was crowned by the same square of Mars to Neptune and Mercury, which was the cause of the hurricane from the very beginning. The sun was in the 7th degree of Virgo - the degree of exile from one's own home. Jupiter was in the 19th degree of Libra - this is a degree of darkness, hopelessness, pessimism, violent loss of home. Uranus in the water sign in Pisces was also associated with exile (9th degree of Pisces). The lack of worthy help and response from the state in general and Mr. Bush in particular is expressed by the presence of the Black Moon in Leo. The White Moon in Libra expresses sympathy and understanding of the grief of Louisianans on the part of people of art and representatives of other countries.
Residents called New Orleans a carefree city. In fact, that’s exactly what he turned out to be. Throughout the 20th century, it was discussed that New Orleans might be flooded because it is located below sea level. And no measures were taken to prevent this from happening.
So the wrath of the Gods could be prevented not only with the help of knowledge of astrology, but also with the help of the development and implementation of a more developed system of dams and dams. If the city had been protected and prepared for the hurricane, Katrina's tough temper would have been subdued in time. With Petruchio’s knowledge, dexterity and cunning, one can cope with any natural phenomenon, and even the “wrath of the Gods” can fall instead of a giant hurricane with a cheerful summer downpour. Water is an excellent accumulator of solar energy. And the gigantic energy accumulated in the Gulf of Mexico is realized through hurricanes. This is a natural mechanism for heat sink in abnormally overheated waters of the World Ocean. The power of one Hurricane Katrina The city of New Orleans is the cradle of jazz, rhythm and blues, great black music. It can already be predicted that Michael Jackson’s song dedicated to the tragedy, which he is currently recording, will become the anthem of the flooded city for many years. Do you think this is just an accident? Not at all. Michael Jackson's sign is Virgo, he was born
Hurricane Katrina began forming on August 23 in the Bahamas. Before the hurricane reached the US coast, it was classified as Danger Level 5 on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale. About 12 hours before hitting the coast, the hurricane weakened to Category 4. The wind speed during the hurricane reached 280 km/h. On August 27, 2005, it passed over the Florida coast near Miami and turned towards the Gulf of Mexico. On Monday, August 29, 2005, the hurricane reached the southeastern coast of the United States in the area of Louisiana and Mississippi. Its coverage area included the state of Louisiana, south and central Mississippi, southern Alabama, western Georgia, and western and southern Florida. On August 30, CNN reported on mass looting in New Orleans.
As a result of the disaster, 800 thousand people were left without electricity and telephone communications. The officially confirmed number of victims was 1,600 people. Economic damage amounted to $125 billion. President Bush's ratings dropped by 38%.
Now that 5 years have passed since the disaster, it is worth looking back and seeing what happened and what happened to the settlements, streets and houses that were affected by the disaster.
1. Above: On August 23, 2010, Robert Fontaine stands at the site in New Orleans, Louisiana, where his home once stood after it burned down after Hurricane Katrina passed through five years ago. Fontaine says he stayed home to look after the dogs. Due to the lack of electricity, he lit the house with candles, and one of the dogs overturned the candle, causing a fire. “My whole life, my whole world collapsed. For everyone, not just me." Below: Robert Fontaine walks past a burning house on September 6, 2005 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Getty Images/Mario Tama)
2. Above: The New Orleans Saints play against the Houston Texans at the Superdome in New Orleans on August 21, 2010. Below: On September 2, 2005, victims of Hurricane Katrina at the Superdome, which then became a shelter for victims of the disaster. (Getty Images/Mario Tama)
3. Above: Lower Nine's Ward in New Orleans with new buildings on August 24, 2010 Below: the same area on August 25, 2006. (Getty Images/Mario Tama)
4. Above: The rebuilt embankment wall in Lower Nine's Ward on August 20, 2010. Below: Workers repair this wall along an industrial canal that was later demolished by Hurricane Katrina. Repairs were scheduled to be completed that year in time for the start of the new hurricane season on June 1. (Getty Images/Mario Tama)
5. Above: Young residents of Lower Nine's Ward play football in the street on August 20, 2010. The Make it Right Foundation is building homes for families experiencing homelessness following Hurricane Katrina. Below: A group of Amish student volunteers tours an area devastated by Hurricane Katrina on February 24, 2006. (Getty Images/Mario Tama)
6. Above: Cars drive across the bridge over the Industrial Canal on August 23, 2010. Below: Two men row a boat across a flooded bridge over the Industrial Canal on August 31, 2005. (Getty Images/Mario Tama)
7. Above: A statue of the Virgin Mary stands in a cemetery on August 19, 2010 in Buras, Louisiana. Bottom: The same statue in front of an open crypt in the same cemetery on February 23, 2006. The cemetery flooded during Hurricane Katrina, and several coffins simply floated out of the cemetery. (Getty Images/Mario Tama)
8. Above: Cemetery at St. Patrick's Church in Plaquemines Parish on August 19, 2010 in Port Salfe, Louisiana. Bottom: The same cemetery flooded during Hurricane Katrina on September 11, 2005. (Getty Images/Mario Tama)
9. Above: A sign asking for any information regarding the identification of the coffins to contact Mike Mudge at such and such telephone number, standing in Buras on August 19, 2010. Bottom: The same sign on February 23, 2006. (Getty Images/Mario Tama)
10. Left: Willie Lee, 84, stands in his home, which was badly damaged during Hurricane Katrina, which he wants to rebuild, on August 18, 2010 in Pearlington, Mississippi. Lee says he has received funds to rebuild the house, but can't find a builder he can trust. Right: Willie Lee, 79, stands outside his destroyed home after Hurricane Katrina on May 25, 2006. Lee says he tried to ride out the storm at home, but ended up being washed away by the floodwaters. He managed to grab a tree branch and waited for several hours for the flood to subside. Lee says there was a poisonous snake sitting in the tree next to him the whole time. Hurricane Katrina moved onto Pearlington, which is located directly between New Orleans and Biloxi, Mississippi. (Getty Images/Mario Tama)
11. Waves crash onto a ship that washed up on Highway 80 during Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005 in Gulfport, Mississippi. (AP/John Bazemore)
A team of volunteers rescues the Taylor family from the roof of a car stranded on US 90 during Hurricane Katrina flooding on August 29, 2005 in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. (AP/Ben Sklar)
13. Hurricane Katrina victims cross a bridge in a downpour on September 1, 2005, leaving New Orleans. August 29, 2010 marked exactly five years since the devastating Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast. Katrina caused heavy rains that in turn led to floods that killed 1,600 people, destroyed thousands of homes and tarnished the reputation of President George W. Bush, who was criticized by the public for his handling of the natural crisis. (AFP/Getty Images/Robert Sullivan)
14. New Orleans at dawn on September 3, 2005. In some areas of the city, fires continue and there is standing water. (New York Times/Vincent Laforet)
15. Water overflows an embankment wall along a canal in New Orleans on August 30, 2005. (New York Times/Vincent Laforet)
16. Water surrounded houses east of downtown New Orleans on August 30, 2005, the day after the deadly impact of Hurricane Katrina. (The Dallas Morning News/Smiley N. Pool)
17. Flood waters from Hurricane Katrina on the streets of New Orleans on August 30, 2005. (New York Times/Vincent Laforet)
19. Flooded cemetery in New Orleans on September 3, 2005. Photo taken from a Chinook military helicopter. (AP/Haraz N. Ghanbari)
20. A torn American flag flutters in front of the Hyatt Hotel damaged by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans on August 29, 2005. (AP/Bill Haber)
21. Thousands of people displaced by Hurricane Katrina wait for a bus to arrive at relief centers from the Superdome on September 2, 2005. (AFP/Getty Images/Pool)
22. People wait for evacuation at the Superdome stadium on September 3, 2005. The National Guard said gunshots were heard outside the stadium just six days after the storm. (AFP/Getty Images/Nicholas Kamm)
23. Evelyn Turner cries at the body of her common-law husband Xavier Bowie, who died in Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans on August 30, 2005. Bowie and Turner were unable to escape the city. Bowie, who had lung cancer, died when his oxygen ran out. (AP/Eric Gay)
Clorestine Haney and her 6-year-old daughter cry as they receive their daily meals at the National Guard Exhibition Center in downtown New Orleans, six days after Hurricane Katrina. (New York Times/Vincent Laforet)
25. The body of a Hurricane Katrina victim floats in the New Orleans river on September 1, 2005. (AFP/Getty Images/James Nielsen)
26. A man stands on a roof waiting for rescuers on August 31, 2005 in New Orleans. (The Dallas Morning News/Smiley N. Pool)
27. Residents wait to be evacuated on the roof of a building in New Orleans on August 31, 2005. (The Dallas Morning News/Smiley N. Pool)
28. Residents of New Orleans wait for salvation from Hurricane Katrina on August 31, 2005. (AP/David J. Phillip)
29. Residents wait for rescuers on the roof of a house in New Orleans on September 1, 2005. (AP/David J. Phillip)
30. Ronald Wood is rescued from his home in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005. (AFP/Getty Images/James Nielsen)
31. A Hurricane Katrina victim is rescued by helicopter from a flooded area in New Orleans on August 30, 2005. (New York Times/Vincent Laforet)
33. 17-year-old Adrianna Fournet brought water to Eliza Eller at the Hurricane Katrina victim center in the St. Thomas More" in Bayton Rouge, Louisiana on August 29, 2005. Eller was one of more than 150 residents at the Wynhoven Health Care Center in Marrero, Louisiana. (THE (BATON ROUGE) ADVOCATE / Kerry Maloney)
34. Robin Whittington was reunited with her husband at the New Orleans airport on September 2, 2005. The Whittingtons were evacuated in separate helicopters. (New York Times/Vincent Laforet)
Tam Ku (left), Jason Jackson and Linda Bryant assess damage caused by Hurricane Katrina to Linda's home in Biloxi, Mississippi, on August 31, 2005. (Dallas Morning News/Barbara Davidson)
36. Ruins in the Lakeview District - in a destroyed middle-class neighborhood located just off the east side of the 17th Street Canal in New Orleans on September 22, 2005. (AFP/Getty Images/Robyn Beck)
