2005 Complete Guide to the Hurricane Katrina Disaster: Federal Reports, Government Response, Science Reports, Devastation to Louisiana, New Orleans, Mississippi, Alabama (News Focus DVD-ROM)

This electronic book on DVD-ROM provides a unique and comprehensive collection of American government documents on the heartbreaking Hurricane Katrina disaster of August – September 2005, which created an incredible human catastrophe and devastation in Louisiana (especially New Orleans), Mississippi, and Alabama. Katrina will likely be recorded as the worst natural disaster in the history of the United States, producing catastrophic damage and untold casualties in the New Orleans area and along the Mississippi gulf coast, and additional casualties in south Florida. The extent of the physical and human devastation from this hurricane cannot yet be estimated. This horrific storm became a depression southeast of Nassau in the Bahamas August 23. It became a tropical storm the following day. Katrina moved through the Bahamas, and then turned westward toward south Florida and gradually strengthened. Katrina became a category 1 hurricane and made landfall on the Miami-Dade / Broward county line during the evening August 25. After crossing south Florida and entering the Gulf of Mexico, Katrina began to strengthen, reaching category 5 on August 28 about 250 miles south-southeast of the mouth of the Mississippi River. Katrina's winds reached their peak intensity of 175 mph winds and the pressure fell to 902 mb - the fourth lowest pressure on record - later that day. Katrina turned to the northwest and then north, making landfall in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana with 140 mph winds (category 4) at 6:10 AM CDT on 29 August. Continuing northward, Katrina made a second landfall near the Louisiana/Mississippi border at 10 AM CDT, with maximum winds of near 125 mph (Category 3). There is material from twenty-six federal agencies and departments, with in-depth national reports, technical and scientific data, and images: · Bush White House · FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) · Army Corps of Engineers · National Guard · Department of Homeland Security · NASA (satellite images and science data) · National Hurricane Center (NHC), National Weather Service · U.S. Geological Survey · NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) · Commerce Department · Department of Transportation · Education Department · Centers for Disease Control · Energy Department · Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) · Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) · Food and Drug Administration (FDA) · Health and Human Services (HHS) · Federal Trade Commission (FTC) · Treasury Department · OSHA (Occupational Health and Safety Administration) · HUD (Housing and Urban Development) · Justice Department Material unique to this DVD-ROM edition that is not found in our basic CD-ROM includes total coverage of the National Hurricane Center, comprehensive images from the USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Program Coastal Impact Study program of Katrina, and special coverage of disaster assistance and CDC disaster guidelines. This comprehensive DVD-ROM is packed with over 38,000 pages reproduced using Adobe Acrobat PDF software - allowing direct viewing on Windows and Macintosh systems. Advanced search and indexing features are built into our reproduction, providing a complete full-text index. This enables the user to search all the files on the disk at one time for words or phrases using just one search command. The Acrobat cataloging technology adds enormous value and uncommon functionality to this impressive collection of government documents and material. Our news and educational CD-ROM and DVD-ROM discs are privately compiled collections of official public domain U.S. government files and documents - they are not produced by the federal government. They are designed to provide a convenient user-friendly reference work, utilizing the benefits of the Adobe Acrobat format to uniformly present thousands of pages that can be rapidly reviewed, searched by finding specific words, or printed without untold hours of tedious research and downlo