Q&A: Which of the following statements about Hurricane Katrina is false?
Question by Cawlsing: Which of the following statements about Hurricane Katrina is false?
a. New Orleans’s natural defenses (marshland and barrier islands) to hurricane damage have been dwindling in recent years.
b. About 50% of residents of New Orleans evacuated before Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans.
c. There were many predictions of the high risk of hurricanes to New Orleans before Hurricane Katrina occurred.
d. Hurricane Katrina hit land near New Orleans as a Category 3 hurricane and caused widespread flooding in New Orleans due to levee failure, even though the levees were designed to withstand a Category 3 hurricane.
Best answer:
Answer by pitademon2000
B is false
everyone knew before Katrina that the barrier islands and marshes were being eroded and drying up.
yes many predictions were made before Katrina about what would happen if a category 3 or higher hurricane hit. They even got federal dollars to use to create evacuation plans for New Orleans….they used that money to instead build the Lake Pontchartrain causeway (real good use huh?). So the evacuation plan was never really made…which explains my answer being B
Yes it made landfall as a Category 3, though it was at one point a category 5. It still had a heck of a surge that toppled the levees and barriers. There was not enough time for the water to settle back down before it hit.
NOLA GUY: I actually read the papers.
What do you think? Answer below!
B is the best answer.
It’s because more than 95% of the New Orleans metro area’s 1,400,000 population was able to leave and the highways were empty by the evening of the 28th. About half of those who could not or would not leave went to the Superdome, which was the designated shelter. Emergency management experts believed it would take 96 hours to evacuate or shelter 97% of a city the size of New Orleans, but NOLA did it in less than 48 hours.
D is also false. The levee system was > not < designed to withstand a Caegory 3 storm. However, the US Army Corps of Engineers lied about the strength of the levee system and we (the people of New Orleans) believed it was designed to withstand a Category 3 or stronger hurricane. www.levees.org Emergency planning funding was > not < used to build the Causeway (or for anything other than emergency planning). The levee system around New Orleans breached (failed) without being overtopped by the storm surge.