A natural disaster is the consequence of the natural hazard (e.g. an earthquake, tsunami, typhoon ). In a natural disaster usually peoples lives are lost, buildings are destroyed and money is wasted to rebuild after. Sometimes the disasters take away a lot and sometimes not as much. A natural disaster has got nothing to do with a human disaster as a natural disaster is caused by the nature.
Two major disasters have happened in the last two years one of them is hurricane Katrina which happened in the United States, Louisiana, Mississippi on the year 2005, this disaster took more than 1836 people.
Another disaster that has occurred in the past two years is the Kashmir earthquake which occurred in the Pakistan administered Kashmir on the year 2005, the disaster killed 85350, left over a hundred and six thousand people injured and left more than many homeless.
Hurricane Katrina formed on august 23rd during the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, it reached over 175m/ph winds and the terrifying thing destroyed anything in its path as it broke the flood defenses in over 50 places. The hurricane was one of the costliest and the deadliest hurricanes in the history of the United States. The disaster killed more than 1836 people, left many more injured, millions peoples houses flooded and a whopping bill of 86 billion us dollars.
Over 70 countries gave donations. Kuwait made the largest single donation, $500 million; other large donations were made by Qatar ($100 million), South Korea ($30 million), Australia ($10 million), India, China (both $5 million), Pakistan ($1.5 million), and Bangladesh ($1 million).
People were affected psycholigacialy too after seeing family relatives being frown about and not being treated with respect and it all happened because of the hurricane.
The death per thousand toll has raised too.There are to date approximately 1897 deaths caused by Hurricane Katrina or the flooding aftermath.
Displacement - Because high amount of refugees (500,000), homeless people (80% city underwater) people are accommodated in a number of things, trailer parks are for the poorest people who cannot afford to move elsewhere and those who could not afford insurance. These trailer parks are located across neighbouring states containing evacuees or IDP's Internally Displaced People. There is short term displacement for those whose houses in the higher parts of New Orleans i.e. places above sea level. For those in H.S.E.G's (higher social economic groups) or for those people who had insurance, they can move to neighbouring states. During the hurricane and immediately after, the Superdome was the biggest structure and evacuees or IDP's had to go to this "safehouse". Between 15,000 and 25,000 people came to the Superdome expecting to be helped however when they arrived they found little supplies of food water and electricity, these people also had to contend with reports of a rapist in the dome. 6 people died.
Disruption - The main airport was closed during the storm but opened up soon after, although it only allowed relief and rescue flights. Disruption to tourists, commercial flights didn't reconvene until September 13th. Bridges and other destruction to roads or freeways caused massive disruption to travel networks. People couldn't get to work and so the whole infrastructure collapsed as no-one could travel anywhere.
Looting - Because people thought they had been abandoned they took to looting shops for food and resources. On August 21st New Orleans 1,500 strong police force abandoned search and rescue missions to turn their attention towards controlling the widespread looting. The city also ordered a mandatory curfew. The mayor (Ray Nagin) ordered for federal assistance. Governor Blanco announced the arrival of the military and suggested in the state of emergency that the military knew how to shoot and he expected they would. There were reported armed attacks on relief helicopters, bus convoys and police officers. On Sep 1st 6,500 National Guard Troops had arrived in New Orleans to help the looting and seize control of the city.
The American Red Cross, Southern Baptist Convention, Salvation Army, Oxfam, Common Ground Collective, Emergency Communities, Habitat for Humanity, Service International, "A River of Hope" and many other charitable organizations provided help to the victims of the storm. They were not allowed into New Orleans proper by the National Guard for several days after the storm because of safety concerns. These organizations raised $4.25 billion (USD) in donations by the public, with the Red Cross receiving over half of the donations.
Volunteers from amateur radio's emergency service wing, the Amateur Radio Emergency Service, provided communications in areas where the communications infrastructure had been damaged or totally destroyed, relaying everything from 911 traffic to messages home. In Hancock County, Mississippi, ham radio operators provided the only communications into or out of the area, and even served as 911 dispatchers.
