Essay on "Management to Hurricane Katrina"

Essay 2 pages (889 words) Sources: 3

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5 m), emergency management officials in New Orleans feared that the storm surge could go over the tops of levees protecting the city, causing major flooding.(Amanda Ripley, 2005)

However, Americans were shaken not simply by the magnitude of the disaster but by how ill-prepared all levels of government were in its aftermath. Although New Orleans had performed a hurricane drill the previous year, the city and state governments had no transportation or crime prevention plans in place, and such negligence had devastating consequences.

It is worth noting that thought the aftermath of the disaster were finally handled albeit after a long period of time, there was uncoordinated chain of command without a clear definition of the central command post. The federal agencies declared that they were there to support the state and local government agencies, the National Guard gave the same sentiment forcing the NPR to declare that there was clearly no central command post and that people were not being made to know when they would be evacuated from New Orleans. However, once president Bush declared the catastrophe a national disaster, the superdome was opened and those who could not leave the city were allowed in, the Louisiana National Guard delivered a food supply that was enough for 1,500 people for 3 days, troops from Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida were all ready for operations.

Once the hurricane had made a landfall on August 29, and the situation was dire, JFMCC (Joint Force Maritime Component Command) was formed and established at the Naval Air Station Pensacola under the command of Rear Admiral Kilkenny Joseph and was charged with the marine coordination of the delivery of relief food as well as the rescue operations in the entire Gulf Coast, to give the support in the operations for the civil authorities and FEMA, coordination of all the maritime forces and the naval aircraft as well as the ultimate restoration of the destroyed naval shores facilities in the gulf region (Naval Sea Systems Command, 2007).

In general, there was a combination of the various agencies, the military, the government non-military bodies, NGOs, churches and all the willing participants that took USA to recover from the adverse effects of the hurricane Katrina.

References

Amanda Ripley (2005-10-23). Hurricane Katrina: How the Coast Guard Got it Right. Time Magazine. September 5, 2011 from http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1122007-2,00.html

Naval Sea Systems Command, (2007). U.S. Navy Salvage Report: Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

Retrieved September 5, 2011 from http://www.uscg.mil/history/katrina/USNKatrinaSalvageRpt.pdf

Stephen Barr, (2005). Coast Guard's Response to Katrina a Silver Lining in the Storm.

Washington Post. Retrieved September 5, 2011 from http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/05/AR2005090501418.html

Stewart & Stacy, (2005). Hurricane Katrina Discussion No. 14. National Hurricane Centre.

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