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Analyze the impact of physical and human geographic factors on the levee failure in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
Analyze the impact of physical and human geographic factors on the levee failure in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
Levee failure in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina caused great flooding. *
Levee failure in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina caused great flooding. *
- Human factors – engineering failure of the levees caused great flooding, loss of life and inter-regional migration. Also created national discontent with government response time.
- Physical factors – the wind and storm surge of the hurricane hit at high tide. The intense level of rising water breached the levee and the city was inundated with water.
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