Caught In The Path Of Katrina

Author : J. Steven Picou,Keith Nicholls
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781477319734

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Caught in the Path of Katrina by J. Steven Picou,Keith Nicholls Pdf

In 2008, three years after Hurricane Katrina cut a deadly path along the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico, researchers J. Steven Picou and Keith Nicholls conducted a survey of the survivors in Louisiana and Mississippi, receiving more than twenty-five hundred responses, and followed up two years later with more than five hundred of the initial respondents. Showcasing these landmark findings, Caught in the Path of Katrina yields a more complete understanding of the traumas endured because of the Storm of the Century. The authors report on evacuation behaviors, separations from family, damage to homes, and physical and psychological conditions among residents of seven of the parishes and counties that bore the brunt of Katrina. The findings underscore the frequently disproportionate suffering of African Americans and the agonizingly slow pace of recovery. Highlighting the lessons learned, the book offers suggestions for improved governmental emergency management techniques to increase preparedness, better mitigate storm damage, and reduce the level of trauma in future disasters. Multiple major hurricanes have unleashed their destruction in the years since Katrina, making this a crucial study whose importance only continues to grow.

Author : Heather Andrews
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131686458

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That Rough Beast, Its Hour Come Round at Last by Heather Andrews Pdf

Chronicles the devastation of that storm but immortalizes some of the tales of personal tragedy associated with it, while celebrating the resilience of the human spirit-as communities come together and begin to rebuild. Photographs many different aspects of the damage.

Author : Kai Erikson,Lori Peek
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781477324363

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The Continuing Storm by Kai Erikson,Lori Peek Pdf

More than fifteen years later, Hurricane Katrina maintains a strong grip on the American imagination. The reason is not simply that Katrina was an event of enormous scale, although it certainly was by any measure one of the most damaging storms in American history. But, quite apart from its lethality and destructiveness, Katrina retains a place in living memory because it is one of the most telling disasters in our recent national experience, revealing important truths about our society and ourselves. The final volume in the award-winning Katrina Bookshelf series Higher Ground reflects upon what we have learned about Katrina and about America. Kai Erikson and Lori Peek expand our view of the disaster by assessing its ongoing impact on individual lives and across the wide-ranging geographies where displaced New Orleanians landed after the storm. Such an expanded view, the authors argue, is critical for understanding the human costs of catastrophe across time and space. Concluding with a broader examination of disasters in the years since Katrina—including COVID-19—The Continuing Storm is a sobering meditation on the duration of a catastrophe that continues to exact steep costs in human suffering.

Author : Alice Fothergill,Lori Peek
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781477305461

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Children of Katrina by Alice Fothergill,Lori Peek Pdf

When children experience upheaval and trauma, adults often view them as either vulnerable and helpless or as resilient and able to easily “bounce back.” But the reality is far more complex for the children and youth whose lives are suddenly upended by disaster. How are children actually affected by catastrophic events and how do they cope with the damage and disruption? Children of Katrina offers one of the only long-term, multiyear studies of young people following disaster. Sociologists Alice Fothergill and Lori Peek spent seven years after Hurricane Katrina interviewing and observing several hundred children and their family members, friends, neighbors, teachers, and other caregivers. In this book, they focus intimately on seven children between the ages of three and eighteen, selected because they exemplify the varied experiences of the larger group. They find that children followed three different post-disaster trajectories—declining, finding equilibrium, and fluctuating—as they tried to regain stability. The children’s moving stories illuminate how a devastating disaster affects individual health and well-being, family situations, housing and neighborhood contexts, schooling, peer relationships, and extracurricular activities. This work also demonstrates how outcomes were often worse for children who were vulnerable and living in crisis before the storm. Fothergill and Peek clarify what kinds of assistance children need during emergency response and recovery periods, as well as the individual, familial, social, and structural factors that aid or hinder children in getting that support.

Author : Steve Kroll-Smith,Vern Baxter
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781477303863

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Left to Chance by Steve Kroll-Smith,Vern Baxter Pdf

This in-depth study of two black neighborhoods in the wake of Hurricane Katrina vividly captures the struggle and uncertainty in the process of rebuilding. Hurricane Katrina was the worst urban flood in American history, a disaster that destroyed nearly the entire physical landscape of a city, as well as the mental and emotional maps that people use to navigate their everyday lives. Left to Chance takes us into two African American neighborhoods—working-class Hollygrove and middle-class Pontchartrain Park—to learn how their residents have experienced “Miss Katrina” and the long road back to normal life. The authors spent several years gathering firsthand accounts of the flooding, the rushed evacuations that turned into weeks- and months-long exile, and the often confusing and exhausting process of rebuilding damaged homes in a city whose local government had all but failed. As the residents’ stories make vividly clear, government and social science concepts such as “disaster management,” “restoring normality,” and “recovery” have little meaning for people whose worlds were washed away in the flood. For the neighbors in Hollygrove and Pontchartrain Park, life in the aftermath of Katrina has been a passage from all that was familiar and routine to an ominous world filled with existential uncertainty. Recovery and rebuilding become processes imbued with mysteries, accidental encounters, and hasty adaptations, while victories and defeats are left to chance.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : UIUC:30112075655958

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The Federal Response to Hurricane Katrina by Anonim Pdf

"The objective of this report is to identify and establish a roadmap on how to do that, and lay the groundwork for transforming how this Nation- from every level of government to the private sector to individual citizens and communities - pursues a real and lasting vision of preparedness. To get there will require significant change to the status quo, to include adjustments to policy, structure, and mindset"--P. 2.

Author : Carolyn Glenn Brewer
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1546601996

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Caught in the Path by Carolyn Glenn Brewer Pdf

Before storm sirens, before the Weather Channel, before Doppler Radar, a tornado "dropped out of a troubled May sky and twisted its way into our lives forever." On the evening of May 20, 1957 three communities south of Kansas City, Missouri were destroyed by a seventy-one mile, F-5 twister. This monstrous storm left in its path five hundred injured, forty dead and over a million dollars worth of property damage. Nothing defines a community more than its reaction to disaster. Caught in the Path is a story of fear and courage, suffering and resiliency. The hardest hit area, four year old Ruskin Heights, was the first post-war tract housing development in the Kansas City area. Like so many of their generation, its residents, mostly first time home buyers in their twenties and thirties, came to Ruskin to raise their baby-boom families with the optimism of the fifties. When the tornado scattered their dreams along its path, they came back, and changed a housing development into a community. Author Carolyn Glenn Brewer's family was among those caught off guard by the tornado. Most of the houses on her block were leveled to the foundation. She combines her story with extensive interviews from nearly one hundred survivors and period media coverage. The narrative flow of this book reads like fiction, but makes the tornado, and the summer that followed, pulse with reality.

Author : Institute of Medicine,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007-06-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309179898

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Environmental Public Health Impacts of Disasters by Institute of Medicine,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine Pdf

Public health officials have the traditional responsibilities of protecting the food supply, safeguarding against communicable disease, and ensuring safe and healthful conditions for the population. Beyond this, public health today is challenged in a way that it has never been before. Starting with the 9/11 terrorist attacks, public health officers have had to spend significant amounts of time addressing the threat of terrorism to human health. Hurricane Katrina was an unprecedented disaster for the United States. During the first weeks, the enormity of the event and the sheer response needs for public health became apparent. The tragic loss of human life overshadowed the ongoing social and economic disruption in a region that was already economically depressed. Hurricane Katrina reemphasized to the public and to policy makers the importance of addressing long-term needs after a disaster. On October 20, 2005, the Institute of Medicine's Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine held a workshop which convened members of the scientific community to highlight the status of the recovery effort, consider the ongoing challenges in the midst of a disaster, and facilitate scientific dialogue about the impacts of Hurricane Katrina on people's health. Environmental Public Health Impacts of Disasters: Hurricane Katrina is the summary of this workshop. This report will inform the public health, first responder, and scientific communities on how the affected community can be helped in both the midterm and the near future. In addition, the report can provide guidance on how to use the information gathered about environmental health during a disaster to prepare for future events.

Author : Susan M. Moyer
Publisher : Sports Publishing LLC
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Disaster victims
ISBN : 9781596700307

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Katrina by Susan M. Moyer Pdf

At 7 a.m. on August 29, Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Louisiana coast between Grand Isle and the mouth of the Mississippi River as a strong Category 4 hurricane. The devastation she would bring to the Gulf Coast was widespread and unimaginable. Though warnings had been issued for days and evacuations initiated, thousands stood in the path of one of the strongest storms in the history of America. Left with no power, no drinking water, dwindling food supplies, and steadily rising waters from major levee breaches, survivors also faced life-threatening looting and widespread fires. Efforts to limit the flooding were initially unsuccessful and refugees from the hurricane fought for their very survival on the streets of New Orleans and throughout Louisiana and Mississippi. While tragedy and desperation brought out the worst in some, it also inspired courage and hope in others, giving them the will to triumph against incalculable odds.

Author : Elliot Graves
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-08
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781467873185

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The Haunting of Katrina Milford by Elliot Graves Pdf

Considering for a moment that Im not currently suffering under the strain of a mental breakdown, Katrina said, do you mind explaining what exactly it is thats happening to me? Katrina Milford awoke one morning to find her world literally turned upside down by the discovery that she was now sharing her life with someone that had long since been relieved of such a burden. All she knew of him aside from his slip of the mortal coil was that he went by the name Thomas. Let him tell it and he knew all that he needed to know about her, the brunt of which being that her life was a mess and the sole reason that he was there was to help her do something about it. You blame me for haunting you, but the truth is you were inhabiting a world of displaced, wandering spirits set adrift on a barren sea of disillusion long before I landed in your life. Follow Katrina as she moves through a world colored by the supernatural and populated with all of the angst that one would expect to find while trying to navigate the pitfalls of a senior year at high school with the undead looking over your shoulder.

Author : Barb Palser
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0756521017

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Hurricane Katrina by Barb Palser Pdf

Details the events leading to and following the arrival of Hurricane Katrina along the Gulf Coast and in New Orleans in 2005. Includes source notes and timeline.

Author : Carolyn Glenn Brewer
Publisher : Leathers Pub
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0965577406

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Caught in the Path by Carolyn Glenn Brewer Pdf

Author : Bobby Nash
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781098239251

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Hurricane Katrina by Bobby Nash Pdf

In 2005, US Marshal Bill Reece is in New Orleans, Louisiana to transfer a convict to a new prison. When Hurricane Katrina hits the city, a wall of water slams into their car, rolling it over. Reece is knocked out and the convict escapes. Can Reece navigate through the flooded, storm-wrecked city and catch the escaped prisoner? Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards. Graphic Planet is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO.

Author : Frye Gaillard,Sheila Hagler,Peggy Denniston
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817355043

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In the Path of the Storms by Frye Gaillard,Sheila Hagler,Peggy Denniston Pdf

In the Path of the Storms is touching and heroic portrait of two Alabama Gulf Coast communities.

Author : Daniel Hellmund
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781300566656

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Laria, Book 1 of the Laria Saga (Hardcover) by Daniel Hellmund Pdf

One man's sorrow is the key against the greatest evil Laria has ever seen. Joshua Owen, a guard in the tiny village of Angeli, discovers the body of a local tavern owner. After learning about the man's missing daughter, Joshua abandons his post against his superior's orders in an attempt to rescue her. His desperate journey to find her leads him on the trail of an even more sinister plot. Joshua doesn't know that the killer wants to end the global conflict known as the Eternal War, but in order to do so, there must be thousands of sacrifices, one of which is innocence. The killer, masked and under the impression he is being led by Gods, wants to rule all of Laria. Joshua, armed only with a warped sense of duty and honor born of vengeance, must confront his nightmares and his past before Laria's fate can be saved.Laria is the first book in the Laria Saga. It is continued in book 2, Laria's Shadows