Hurricane! by Anne Rooney

Author:Anne Rooney
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Britannica Digital Learning
Published: 2006-03-14T16:00:00+00:00

New Orleans as it was before Hurricane Katrina (2005) and then 17 days afterward, with much of the city flooded.

After the storm

Even when the winds die down, the danger is not over. The land may stay flooded for weeks. People may have nowhere to shelter from continuing bad weather and no food or clean water. Injured and sick people are often cut off from medical help. Survivors may begin to suffer from exposure if the weather is cold, or they may suffer dehydration, sunstroke, or heat exhaustion if it is hot. In some areas they may be prey to poisonous snakes, dangerous animals, and disease-carrying insects.

In refugee camps and emergency accommodations, people are often crowded together in unsanitary conditions without adequate food, water, or medical attention. Disease spreads rapidly in such conditions. After a cyclone in Bangladesh in 1876, which killed 100,000 people, a further 100,000 died in the cholera epidemic that followed it.

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