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By: Matt Gordy
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Origin
Sandy began as a tropical wave in the Caribbean on october 19th 2012. it quickly developed from here into a tropical depression, and then into a tropical storm. It was officially considered a hurricane on october 24th when the winds reached 74 miles per hour. The storms first victim was Jamaica. After moving over the island, the storm gained strength over the open ocean and became a category 2 hurricane. The next victim was cuba, which weakened the hurricane back to a category one. On october 26th, the storm briefly rolled over the bahamas and weakened down to a tropical storm once again. It soon gained strength once again as it moved up to the east coast of north America.

By: John Pelech
Hurricane Katrina was the fifth most powerful hurricane on record in the United States.
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hurricane. hurricane. The damage began in the Dominican Republic reached the gulf coast as category 3. In between the tropical storm became a category one it began to move northwest closer to the gulf to Mexico it eventually reached category 4 as it approached the shore of the Louisianan but quickly decreased back to a category 3.HurricaneFlorida .Hurricane Katrina struck with winds
of of 144 mph it quickly disapated.disapatched. The damage
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How Did it happen?
Most of the damage was concentrated to the gulf coast. It is thought that hurricane Katrina cause 105 billion dollars in damage. This damage is mainly concentrated in Louisiana. Even more specifically Hurricane Katrina destroyed the city of New Orleans. New Orleans was a city that was put underwater by the storm. New Orleans was under sea level and close to the ocean. to prevent flood from happening constantly the city decided to put up levees as protection. They were not rate for hurricane that level wind. In addition to levees being destroyed. In addition the storm surge was 28 feet high Hurricane killed mainly killed people who where closer to the coast of the gulf coast from storm surges.
Some economists believe that if you account for loss of potential gains it is over 250 billion dollars. Gas production was stopped property damage. Aid for victims. It destroyed the sugercane crop.tourism to the south was stiffled.
Beacuse of hurricane Katrina's deadly power policy maker have been moving forward to reform FEMA. To increase the strength of flood and wind precocious devices.
Chaos
After the hurricane had passed in New Orleans there was wide spread chaos. Food was not available from official source so people broke into stores in order to eat. Eventually the looting became a problem people were looting house for non-essential items. Because, of this chaos federal troops were called in. order was restored to New Orleans a few weeks after the hurricane had past
Works Cited:
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pdf/TCR-AL122005_Katrina.pdf

Killing around 2,000 people
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Hurricane Hurricane killed mainly storm surges.
Some economists believe that if you account for loss of potential gains it is over 250 billion dollars. Gas production was stopped property damage. Aid for victims. It destroyed the sugercane crop.tourism to the south was stiffled.
Works Cited:
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pdf/TCR-AL122005_Katrina.pdf

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Hurricane Katrina
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By: John Pelech
Hurricane Katrina was the fifth most powerful hurricane on record in the United States.

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Hurricane Katrina
By: John Pelech
Killing around 2,000 people
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Hurricane killed mainly killed people who where closer to the coast of the gulf coast from storm surges.
Works Cited:

Killing around 2,000 people
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feet high
Hurricane killed mainly killed people who where closer to the coast of the gulf coast from storm surges.
Works Cited:
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pdf/TCR-AL122005_Katrina.pdf

Killing around 2,000 people
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Katrina cause 61105 billion dollars feet high
Works Cited:
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pdf/TCR-AL122005_Katrina.pdf
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/09/0914_050914_katrina_timeline.html
http://science.howstuffworks.com/nature/natural-disasters/hurricane2.htm

Damage By Hurricane Katrina
The damage by hurricane was immense. the wide spread destruction across the Southerner United States
Killing around 2,000 people
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concentrated in LouisianaLouisiana. Even more specifically Hurricane Katrina destroyed the city of New Orleans. New Orleans was a city that was put underwater by the storm. New Orleans was under sea level and close to the ocean. to prevent flood from happening constantly the city decided to put up levees as protection. They were not rate for hurricane that level wind. In addition to levees being destroyed. In addition the storm surge was 28 feet high
Works Cited:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/09/0914_050914_katrina_timeline.html