Hurricane Katrina

http://www.hurricanekatrinarelief.com/index.html

In 2005 Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans and was known as one of America's largest natural disasters with at least 1,836 deaths. The website I have chosen is a website dedicated to the victims of the disaster giving information on the hurricane and what you can do to help the survivors of Katrina. Almost 5 years later and New Orleans is still suffering, the city has become a ghost town and is left with the remainders of families homes. The city is at a standstill and many citizens are still living in trailers waiting for their homes to be rebuilt, these citizens have lost everything, all their personal belongings, years of memories. So why did it take the government so long to do something about this and why are the citizens of New Orleans still suffering?



Some people believe that George Bush the president at the time is to blame, and that he couldn't care less about the city of New Orleans, and apparently waited 3 days before leaving his vacation to come back and resolve the situation. Whether this is because of the fact that the city is a African American part of the state we do not know, but many of the citizens believe this to be true.

The survivors of the hurricane who lost their homes were put into FEMA trailers whilst waiting for a new home or their old home to be rebuilt. They fit families of 4or more into these tiny, cramped trailers giving the families poor living conditions. The families began complaining of illness and we soon found out the the FEMA trailers were contaminated with formaldehyde a cancer causing gas. FEMA finally tested their trailers to find that they had formaldehyde levels at 75 times the US recommended workplace safety threshold.

If it wasn't for charity websites like Hurricane Katrina Relief these families would not be able to move on and live a normal life again.