Hurricane Katrina: 20 Years Later And Still No Ways To Stop Climate Change!

And still paying for it 20 years later.

George Bush doesn't care about Black people.

Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job.

This fine Chocolate City...

Seen finding food.

Looting from floods.

Racism at its finest.

Hurricane Katrina.

This week is the 20th anniversary of a tragedy. Before Donald J. Trump, there was George W. Bush. In his second term, Bush oversaw the worst weather event in history. He allowed an incompetent Republican controlled government fail the residents of Louisiana.

We saw for the first time gasoline prices sour over $3.00 a gallon for regular fuel.

We saw inflation of foodmand energy resources.

We were still involved in two wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Wars that were inspired by September 11, 2001 and faulty information from the apartheid ethnostate of Israel.

Hurricane Katrina was a monster cyclone.

Bush won in 2004 with a job approval of 51%. Once his second term began it rapidly deteriorated. He had a job approval of 42% in the aftermath of the hurricane. 

New Orleans, the state's largest city and cultural heritage community saw devastating flooding from a powerful category 3 Hurricane Katrina.

Katrina ravaged The Bahamas, Florida before picking up steam. As it was churning in the Gulf of Mexico (America), the storm became a category 5 storm. Upon landing in Louisiana and Mississippi, it was a powerful category 3.

It destroyed New Orleans, Slidell, Hammond, Lafayette and Thibodaux in Louisiana.

It destroyed Bay St. Louis, Gulfport, Biloxi and Pascogoula in Mississippi. 

New Orleans had a population of 452,000 at its peak. Now it has a population of 365,000 as of today.

Former president George W. Bush and Ray Naggin, then mayor of New Orleans.

Hurricane Katrina was an extremely powerful, devastating and historic tropical cyclone that caused 1,392 fatalities and damages estimated at $125 billion in late August 2005, particularly in the city of New Orleans and its surrounding area. It is tied with Hurricane Harvey as being the costliest tropical cyclone in the Atlantic basin. Katrina was the twelfth tropical cyclone, the fifth hurricane, and the third major hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. It was also the fourth-most intense Atlantic hurricane to make landfall in the contiguous United States, gauged by barometric pressure.

Katrina formed on August 23, 2005, with the merger of a tropical wave and the remnants of a tropical depression. After briefly weakening to a tropical storm over south Florida, Katrina entered the Gulf of Mexico on August 26 and rapidly intensified to a Category 5 hurricane before weakening to a Category 3 at its landfall on August 29 near Buras-Triumph, Louisiana.

Eighty percent of New Orleans, as well as large areas in neighboring parishes, were flooded. It is estimated that about 100,000 to 150,000 people remained in the City of New Orleans, despite mandatory evacuation orders. This prompted a massive national and international response effort, including federal, local, and private rescue operations. The largest loss of life was due to flooding caused by engineering flaws in the federally built hurricane protection system, particularly the levees around New Orleans. Multiple investigations concluded that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the organization tasked by Congress in the Flood Control Act of 1965 to design and build the region's hurricane protection, was responsible for the breached floodwalls. Later, a federal appeals court ruled that the Army Corps, despite being responsible, could not be held financially liable due to the Flood Control Act of 1928.

Mike Meyers and Ye. The entertainer made the infamous off script saying George Bush doesn't care about Black people.

The emergency response from federal, state, and local governments was widely criticized, leading to the resignation of Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) director Michael D. Brown and New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) superintendent Eddie Compass. Many other government officials faced criticism for their responses, especially New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin, Louisiana governor Kathleen Blanco, and President George W. Bush. However, several agencies, such as the United States Coast Guard (USCG), National Hurricane Center (NHC), and National Weather Service (NWS), were commended for their actions, with the NHC being particularly praised for its accurate forecasts well in advance.

The destruction and loss of life caused by the storm prompted the name Katrina to be retired by the World Meteorological Organization in April 2006. On January 4, 2023, the NHC updated the Katrina fatality data based on a 2014 report, which reduced the total number from an estimated 1,833 to 1,392.