Hurricane Katrina
in Louisiana
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Shelters
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What Made Katrina Different?
• Magnitude
• Situational awareness
• Continuity of government operations
• Mass evacuation operations
• Security issues
• Hotels, cruise ships as shelter
• We had Hurricane “Pam”
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Major Problems
• Emergency Management architecture
does not hold up in catastrophic events
• Capability at state and local level
• Do not have trained, staffed, and
equipped federal response teams
• Leadership and management
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Major Problems (continued)
• Financial management of disasters
• Immediate Response Authority
• Recovery Programs
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“Going Home”
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