SOCI 100 Lecture Notes - Natural Disaster, Civil Defense
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New orleans is under sea level pan floating on water. Levees damn structure to prevent water flooding the land. Tsunami in the indian ocean us responded after 2 days. But in new orleans, it took 5 days for national response even though troops were just 40 miles away. Venezuela and other less-fortunate countries sent help before federal troops. Fema (federal emergency managentment agency) director had no experience with this type of natural disaster. Levees were built to withstand a category 3 storm; and hurricane katrina was already a category 2 when it hit the levees yet it still failed. High % of the population had no means to evacuate and there was a study that brought this to light too. Mayor nagin didn"t order mandatory evacuation before it was too late: he didn"t want to cripple the local businesses (who rely on tourism) political motive. A lot of troops were in the middle east.
