Inside Hurricane Katrina Page #2
- Year:
- 2005
- 120 min
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it's the hottest city...
narrator:
New Orleans, Louisiana.
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.
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 hurricanehits 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
and giving us a picture
so to speak.
Narrator:
Also on this Friday,August 26th,
both Mississippi and Louisiana
declare states of emergency,
which give the Governors
the right
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