Inside Hurricane Katrina Page #2

Genre: Documentary
Director(s): Sean Waters
 
IMDB:
6.7
Year:
2005
120 min
281 Views


it's the hottest city...

narrator:

New Orleans, Louisiana.

A uniquely American city...

A rollicking mix of French,

Spanish, creole, cajun,

and African influences.

A place with its own beat.

A city of

a half a million people

spiced with jazz, voodoo,

and gumbo.

Drop me off

in New Orleans, man

narrator:
The good times roll.

On the very fragile soil

of the Mississippi delta.

This major port city is built

almost entirely below sea level.

It's shaped like a crescent

and surrounded by water:

The Gulf of Mexico

100 miles to the south;

lake pontchartrain to the north;

and the Mississippi River

winds through it.

On average, the city streets are

six feet lower than the Gulf.

It's protected by one

of the world's largest systems

of earthen levees

and floodwalls.

But some of the levees

are slowly sinking

and in need of repair.

On Friday at 5:
00 P.M.,

Katrina is northwest

of the Florida keys.

With every passing hour,

she sucks in energy

from the warm water.

She's projected to grow

into a very dangerous

category 3 hurricane...

With winds up to

130 miles per hour.

Katrina now appears

to have settled on a target

west of the Florida panhandle.

She is fast becoming a monster.

From Washington, D.C.,

to Louisiana,

local, state

and federal officials

know Katrina is coming.

Narrator:
Baton Rouge.

Here at the Louisiana

emergency operations center,

officials are in battle mode.

Several times a day,

they strategize on the phone

with emergency planners

around the state...

The ones who'll be

on the front lines

if disaster strikes.

One local official

recorded these calls

and provided them

to the producers

of this documentary.

They reveal what officials say

to each other...

And how they plan...

Up to the very moment

that Katrina strikes.

Narrator:
For this hurricane,

as with every natural disaster

in the U.S.,

local and state officials

are the primary and

most critical line of defense.

Everything starts

from the bottom up,

and there's an old saying,

"all disasters are local."

Narrator:
Even before a hurricane

hits or floodwaters rise,

the states will often

ask the federal government

to get involved.

That's where FEMA...

The federal emergency

management agency...

Comes in.

FEMA is supposed

to strategize with the state

and come up

with a plan of attack.

The state kind of acts

as the broker,

coordinating what

the local needs are,

and giving us a picture

of what the gross needs are,

so to speak.

Narrator:
Also on this Friday,

August 26th,

both Mississippi and Louisiana

declare states of emergency,

which give the Governors

the right

to deploy national guard troops

and suspend civil liberties.

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