https://padlet.com/panwanglu/lhr431irtpzprgll en-us 2023-02-09 20:51:44 UTC 2023-02-14 20:41:01 UTC hello@padlet.com panwanglu https://padlet.com/panwanglu/lhr431irtpzprgll/wish/2476925573 Hurricane Katrina picks up some wind and speed, as it's wind reaches 39 miles per hour, it becomes a storm and makes it's way along the coast of Florida, and hurricane warnings are announced.]]> 2023-02-10 20:36:04 UTC https://padlet.com/panwanglu/lhr431irtpzprgll/wish/2476925573 panwanglu https://padlet.com/panwanglu/lhr431irtpzprgll/wish/2476927964 Hurricane Katrina starts forming into a category 1 hurricane and reaches 80 miles per hour, and by midnight, about a million houses lose power, and 11 lives are lost.]]> 2023-02-10 20:39:14 UTC https://padlet.com/panwanglu/lhr431irtpzprgll/wish/2476927964 panwanglu https://padlet.com/panwanglu/lhr431irtpzprgll/wish/2476930073 Katrina moves North into the Gulf of Mexico and quickly picks up speed and size, becoming a category 2 hurricane. Locals try to safeguard their property as the governors of Louisiana and Mississippi declare states of emergency.]]> 2023-02-10 20:42:10 UTC https://padlet.com/panwanglu/lhr431irtpzprgll/wish/2476930073 panwanglu https://padlet.com/panwanglu/lhr431irtpzprgll/wish/2476931365 As its winds reach 115 miles per hour, Katrina becomes a category 3 hurricane, with New Orleans in its sight. People are getting evacuated as soon as they can.]]> 2023-02-10 20:44:02 UTC https://padlet.com/panwanglu/lhr431irtpzprgll/wish/2476931365 panwanglu https://padlet.com/panwanglu/lhr431irtpzprgll/wish/2476935921 Katrina grows to a category 4 hurricane and a few hours later, it becomes into a category 5 hurricane, the highest possible rating. Winds exceed 175 miles an hour, all citizens in New Orleans are ordered to evacuate.]]> 2023-02-10 20:50:09 UTC https://padlet.com/panwanglu/lhr431irtpzprgll/wish/2476935921 panwanglu https://padlet.com/panwanglu/lhr431irtpzprgll/wish/2476937191 Hurricane Katrina starts to slow down to a category 4 hurricane, it makes landfall at 6:00 AM, and the eye moves just east of New Orleans, but the city is not spared. New Orleans sits below sea level surrounded by lake Pontchartrain and the Mississippi river. High mud walls called levies keep the water in the bay, but by 8:00 AM there are reports that a levy was broken, and levies in three locations are breached. Now 80% of the city was flooded, and some neighborhoods are now submerged under 20 feet of water.]]> 2023-02-10 20:52:08 UTC https://padlet.com/panwanglu/lhr431irtpzprgll/wish/2476937191 panwanglu https://padlet.com/panwanglu/lhr431irtpzprgll/wish/2480230607 The damage is a mess, in Mississippi the hurricane has crushed coastal towns, hundreds are feared dead. New Orleans lies in shambles, it is left without power and without drinking water. Many residents are rested on top of rooftops, desperate to be rescued, bodies float on the streets, looting breaks out. Thousands make their way to the super dome and convention center in hopes of being evacuated.]]> 2023-02-13 20:24:33 UTC https://padlet.com/panwanglu/lhr431irtpzprgll/wish/2480230607 panwanglu https://padlet.com/panwanglu/lhr431irtpzprgll/wish/2480252819 The water stopped rising but the city is in chaos, looting and violence is so wide spread that police are ordered to stop rescue operations to combat the problem. ]]> 2023-02-13 20:44:02 UTC https://padlet.com/panwanglu/lhr431irtpzprgll/wish/2480252819 panwanglu https://padlet.com/panwanglu/lhr431irtpzprgll/wish/2480255663 Conditions at the super dome and convention center are increasingly unsafe, people lack food, water, and basic sanitation. There are reports of violent assaults, altogether over 50,000 people wait full of buses to evacuate them, for most the buses do not come. ]]> 2023-02-13 20:46:50 UTC https://padlet.com/panwanglu/lhr431irtpzprgll/wish/2480255663 panwanglu https://padlet.com/panwanglu/lhr431irtpzprgll/wish/2480260494 The national guard arrives in force and restores order, they bring convoys of food and water, and evacuations begin in earnest. By the following Monday, engineers plug holes in the levies, draining pumps go into operation, and the water subsides. The residents of the Gulf suddenly return, and their lives forever changed by the power of the hurricane.]]> 2023-02-13 20:51:45 UTC https://padlet.com/panwanglu/lhr431irtpzprgll/wish/2480260494