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Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Party I favpr the most

I favor the Democrats more then the Republicans. I don't exactly agree with all their ideas because there is always a downfall to them. I am an independent when i comes to saying what political party i favor the most, because Republicans also have some good ideas like in the AIMS. Without the standerized test not many students would care about school

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Hurricane Gustav

Hasn't New Orleans already suffered enough because of hurricanes? Over the years New Orleans Has suffered a lot especially because hurricanes. In 2005 New Orleans was hit with the most dangerous hurricane yet to have hit New Orleans. It left behind a city shattered by death, floods and ruin. On the third anniversary of the storm that destroyed the city and has left it still struggling to recover. Weather Forecasters announced Hurricane Gustav on August 25, 2008. But was New Orleans spared?
Hurricane Gustav was formed in August 25,2008 going southeast of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and rapidly strengthened into a tropical storm. On August 26 Hurricane Gustav was considered a hurricane when it was completely formed. That same day Hurricane Gustav made land fall near the Haitiana Town of Jacmel. It hit Jamaica and ravaged Western Cuba and then steadily moved across the Gulf of Mexico. When Hurricane Gustav was Formed it was a category 3.But they were wrong.
Weather forecasters believed that as Hurricane Gustav got nearer to the U.S it would become stronger. But on September 1, Hurricane Gustav hit Louisiana but as a category 2. As 4 hours went by Hurricane Gustav fell into a category 1. So it proves that the weather forecasters were wrong. After many people heard that Hurricane Gustave decreased in categories it relieved a lot of people from their worries. But not from their troubles.Many people weren't ready for another repeat like Hurricane Katrina. Many New Orleans officials lost $2 billion dollars in reconstructing part of New Orleans but many were afraid it would be gone to waste.
After Hurricane Gustav hit it left at least 8 people dead and a cost of $5 billion in two states.
four in traffic accidents and three from falling trees in Baton Rouge and Lafayette — along with three patients who died as they were being evacuated to hospitals or nursing homes beyond the hurricane's reach.
Hurricane Gustav cracked tree branches, knocked out power to a million homes and triggered localized flooding, but apparently spared the vulnerable New Orleans levee system. Mayor Ray Nagin, who orchestrated a successful effort to evacuate nearly all of his city's 310,000 residents ahead of Gustav, was confident enough to start talking about letting citizens return to their homes as early as Tuesday. When Hurricane Gustav was announced many charities got to work. Bush says that a lot of people handled Hurricane Gustav better than Hurricane Katrina.
Many people are ready to go back to their homes in New Orleans. But Mayor Ray Nagin, is still having people check the damage. Hurricane Gustav showed the vulnerabilities in the levee's. But many people are already doubting the next storms to come. Hurricane Katrina prepared New Orleans and Louisiana for Hurricane Gustav.