HURRICANE KATRINA LINKS
General & Socio-Political Policy
USA
Today Katrina Overview (flash)
Wikipedia on Hurricane
Katrina
Cornel
West (Princeton) "Exiles from a City and a Nation"
Contributed by Prof. Julie Graham Geosciences
LEARNING FROM DISASTERS: LONDON’S
GREAT FIRE AND KATRINA
Article by Prof. Rutherford Platt Geosciences
Robert T.
Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act
As
amended by Public Law 106-390, October 30, 2000
'People
making decisions hesitated'
'Fixing
Government After Katrina'
Yossi Sheffi is a professor of engineering at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he heads the Center for
Transportation and Logistics.
Response-Recovery
Death toll exceeds 1000
persons
'New Orleans
delays partial return to city'
DHS
Department of Homeland Security
DISASTER HELP
(Disaster Management Egov Initiative)
The White House: Hurricane
Relief
Geographic Information
FEMA Mapping and
Analysis Center
US Census Katrina
Demographic Thematic Maps FTP
Hurricane
Katrina GeoINFO from LSU
NASA
Earth Observatory Katrina Images
Digital
Globe Katrina Aftermath Report
ORBIMAGE
Katrina Satellite Photos
Earth Systems
NHC
Hurricane Katrina Archive with Graphics
Dartmouth Flood
Observatory Flood Images and Maps
USGS Hurricane Katrina
Impact Studies
2005 National
Hydrological Assessment
GIS & Interactive Mapping
ESRI
Hurricane Katrina GIS Data Resources Guide
ESRI Hurricane
Katrina Data Viewer Interactive Mapping
HazardMaps.gov
Interactive Mapping
US
Census Thematic Maps Interactive Mapping
TerraServer-USA
Images and Topos Interactive Mapping
New Orleans
FEMA Hurricane PAM
Exercise July 2004 SE Louisiana
**2004
Catastrophic Hurricane Functional Plan for SE Louisiana PDF**
New
Orleans Evacuation Plan Ordered and Paid for in 1997
NOT
Implemented
New Orleans
Data and Maps (Local)
New Orleans Levee
System Map (PDF)
LA Times
'Despite Warnings Washington Failed to Fund Levee Projects'
Officials gambled that the worst-case scenario would
not come to be.
U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers MVD
NYT
Reviving New Orleans with Neighborhood Socio-Economic Impact Map
Southeastern LA Subsidence
& Sea Level Rise MAP and Report USGS
Biloxi & MS Info
Mississippians
Fend for Themselves
Biloxi MS Storm & Flood
Preparedness
Biloxi MS Hurricane
Evacuation Zones MAP
Mississippi
Hurricane Evacuation Guide
Recovery-Reconstruction
MCEER
Structural Damage Assessments
TTU Wind
Science & Engineering Research Center
Reuters:
Reconstruction Contracts
Reconstruction
Firms Stocks Rising
Economic
Aspects of Hurricane Katrina
Insurance
Company Perspectives
Sense & Spirit of Place
An altered Sense of
Place for the new New Orleans
Damage
more than skin deep in New Orleans
Fears
for a Unique History and Culture
Other
Bush
Administration Rejects Responsibility
Bush
Administration Accepts Responsibility
Bush to Lead Katrina
Investigation 9/20/05
The White House announced that
President Bush has named his homeland security adviser, Fran Townsend, to lead
an internal inquiry into the federal response to Hurricane Katrina. Townsend
will look at what went right, what went wrong and lessons learned from the
federal response to Hurricane Katrina. (Canadian Bradcasting Corporation, 2005)
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Per Capita Income 2000 by State:
Alabama: RANK 42 27,709
Louisiana: RANK 43 27,581
Mississippi: RANK 50 24,650
Connecticut: RANK 1 45,398
Massachusetts: RANK 2 41,801
U.S.: 32,937
Of the estimated
150 billion+ in damages
approximately one-third are insured losses.
