To the Rescue. Anna Mulrine.
by Mulrine, Anna; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 21Environment. Publisher: U.S. News & World Report, 2005ISSN: 1522-3205;.Subject(s): Disaster relief | Disaster victims | Environmental refugees | Evacuation of civilians | Flood control | Government liability | Hurricane Katrina (2005) | Mississippi flood (1927) | Mississippi River | New Orleans (La.)DDC classification: 050 Summary: "It didn't look like America, the exodus of stunned refugees wading through turbid, waist-high water, carrying only what mattered most: sick relatives, bundled babies, storm-soaked family Bibles. It looked like another country, the kind of place where armed bandits outnumber police and desperate families search garbage dumpsters for food. A place where the poorest of the poor die in the heat, their corpses ignored on the side of the road. Across the Gulf Coast, lifelong residents who thought they had seen it all were left with nothing in the wake of a storm that has caused what may well be the worst natural disaster ever to hit the United States. Katrina's lethal one-two punch of 145-mile-per-hour winds and a 25-foot storm surge left 90,000 square miles of heartbreak, devastation, and unhinged lives, as rich and poor alike scrounged for food and water, searched for loved ones in rivers of foul, tea-colored water, and wondered, Why on earth was help so slow in coming?" (U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT) This article discusses the federal government's sluggish response to Hurricane Katrina and addresses the national economic and political repercussions of the storm.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: To the Rescue, Sept. 12, 2005; pp. 20-26.
"It didn't look like America, the exodus of stunned refugees wading through turbid, waist-high water, carrying only what mattered most: sick relatives, bundled babies, storm-soaked family Bibles. It looked like another country, the kind of place where armed bandits outnumber police and desperate families search garbage dumpsters for food. A place where the poorest of the poor die in the heat, their corpses ignored on the side of the road. Across the Gulf Coast, lifelong residents who thought they had seen it all were left with nothing in the wake of a storm that has caused what may well be the worst natural disaster ever to hit the United States. Katrina's lethal one-two punch of 145-mile-per-hour winds and a 25-foot storm surge left 90,000 square miles of heartbreak, devastation, and unhinged lives, as rich and poor alike scrounged for food and water, searched for loved ones in rivers of foul, tea-colored water, and wondered, Why on earth was help so slow in coming?" (U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT) This article discusses the federal government's sluggish response to Hurricane Katrina and addresses the national economic and political repercussions of the storm.
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