Landfall College Essays Samples For Students

Introduction

Hurricane Katrina and hurricane Sandy both were the deadliest and costliest hurricanes to have ever lashed upon the United States. Both surfaced in the US during the active hurricane seasons. Both were extremely devastating hurricanes followed by storm surge and flooding which led to a widespread damage across the affected areas, killing people, leaving people homeless and shutting down some of the big cities of US. Hurricane Katrina initiated on a westward path, moving on to Florida and then Gulf coast while hurricane Sandy took its pace on a northward path before landing on the eastern coast of USA. All the devastation ...

The Storm

Fifty-five minutes of utter chaos and fury, The Storm relives that day of November 22, 2005, when Hurricane Katrina’s landfall robber New Orleans of hundreds of innocent lives and left thousands homeless. In this midst of all this, could be heard the voice of a man saying, “Sure didn’t think I’ll die this way,” which abruptly was how it happened. When asked, everyone (The Administration, the Homeland Security, and FEMA) pointed fingers at one another. When quizzed on who was responsible for the inadequacy in preparation for the disaster, Mike Brown, the former director of FEMA said ...

Successes and Failures of New York's Response to Hurricane Sandy

Naomi Klein in her seminal work, SHOCK DOCTRINE: The rise of Disaster Capitalism, makes the startling claim that "Reconstruction is now such a big business that investors greet each new disaster with the excitement of a hot new stock offering: $30 billion for Iraq reconstruction, $13 billion for tsunami reconstruction, $110 billion for New Orleans and the Gulf Coast." (133) In the light of the strife and suffering, witnessed in New York when Hurricane Sandy made landfall, people feared that her worst visions of government failure and mismanagement of the crisis had come to pass. The commercialization of rescue efforts loomed ...

A hurricane is a tropical cyclone formed in the southern Atlantic Ocean. They are characterized by low-pressure centers surrounded by thunderstorms. The thunderstorms produce great winds and rain which contribute to the intensity of the storm. As the water evaporates from the ocean, the saturated air rises leading to the condensation of water vapor.
Hurricane sandy hit the coast of northeast America and was classified as a category 1 storm. On record, it became the largest Atlantic hurricane on record ever. Its winds where wide recorded at spans of up to 1800km. To this end, this aims to look in ...