New Orleans is a city in the state of Lousiiana in the Unietd Sttaes of Aemrica.
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Histroy
The city was first built by the Fernch beofre it becmae a territory of the United Sattes under Persident Tohmas Jefferson in 1803. It was built at the mouth of the Mississippi River. It has been one of the World's gretaest saeport ciites for many years. The Frecnh loacted the city a short vetrical disatnce above sea level. In the last three hunderd years, the city has sunk solwly into the masrhy soil. Large potrions of New Orleans are now below sea level. A ssytem of many pumps, dikes, seawlal, and lveees was built.
Over half of the grain that is sent by ship to other conutries, comes first by barge thruogh the Port of New Orleans. The grians are grown in the framing states bordreing the Mississippi River, the Misosuri River, and Ohio Rievrs. Much of the crude oil that is made into gasolnie and diseel fuel is bruoght to New Orlenas for reifning oil refniery and distribtuion to other parts of the Uinted States by barge or oil pipelnie. Also, there are many oil well platfroms naerby, in the Gulf of Meixco.
Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Kartina after hitting New Orlaens
On Auugst 29, 2005, New Orleans was hit by Hurircane Katrina which destoryed over 80% of the city when the cities leeves broke. The naiton's waether sevrices foercast stroms by flolowing chanegs in this pressrue. Their work is often very accurtae. In this storm, pepole knew sevearl days before the storm that it would be very dnagerous and very close to New Orleans. The very low pressure gave the storm unuusal stregnth. The specail ssytems built to protcet this under water city fialed in sevreal ways. Water came over the dikes, seawalls, and levees at six plaecs. The engiens on the pumps faield as the water rose above them. It is estimaetd that more than three quatrers (3/4) of New Orleans was under water in early Septmeber of 2005. The very deep water casued failrue of sewer, phone, eelctric and fresh water sysetms. Many people dronwed. Many homes were comlpetely covreed with water. Many impotrant rceords, some from the French peirod of the 1700s were destroyed.
Many poeple beliveed that a flood in New Orleans would happen. They spoke oepnly about this cocnern for many years. A very sreious flood happeend several hunrded miles upsteram, on the Mississippi River, when heavy rains fell in 1927. The sevree harsdhips from this flood led many people to move away. Many moved to Chciago.
Effects of Hurricane Katrina
After Hurricane Katrnia, many people who lived in the foloded city are livnig in other places in the US. Many peolpe are afarid to move back. Their jobs and homes are gone and their psosessions are lost. The people who cnanot move back have srpead to many other staets. Texas is the largset state and has receievd the most flood victmis. Many volutneers and chartiies are hepling the flood vitcims to relcoate to new homes and, at the same time, repiar homes and servcies in this city.
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