Ten Years Afterwards Katrina

Ten years later on Hurricane Katrina struck novel Orleans, Esri has released a Story Map which examines the number of the hurricane on the metropolis together with how the metropolis has attempted to rebuild itself.

Katrina +10 includes 6 principal sections; The Katrina Diaspora, Flooding, Physical Damage, Population Shift, Steady Restoration together with Neighborhood Reference Map. The 'Flooding' together with 'Physical Damage' sections let y'all to thought maps of the flooding caused past times the hurricane together with the huge number of buildings inward the metropolis which were tagged for demolition inward the metropolis later on the disaster.

The Katrina Diaspora department shows where the ane 1000000 displaced Louisiana residents moved to later on the hurricane devastated the city. The Population Shift visualizes the number of this evacuation on each New Orleans neighborhood.

The Steady Restoration department of the map uses postal information to demo the percent of homes inward each neighborhood right away receiving mail.


In an article entitled, Is New Orleans inward danger of turning into a modern-day Atlantis?, The Guardian paper places Hurricane Katrina into the context of over a century of technology scientific discipline projects which are causing the Louisiana wetlands to disappear together with which termination inward New Orleans beingness to a greater extent than susceptible to flooding.

The article includes historical aerial imagery together with maps which demo the historical loss of the wetlands together with the projected 1,750 foursquare miles that Lousiana is expected to lose inward the side past times side fifty years. Louisiana is currently losing a football game champaign of solid reason every 48 minutes.

Using historical aerial imagery from NASA together with USGS, ProPublica has position together an impressive interactive mapped visualization of the number of climate alter together with crude & gas exploration on the solid reason of Louisiana.

Southern Louisiana is losing xvi foursquare miles a twelvemonth to the Gulf of Mexico. At the middle of ProPublica's map, Losing Ground, is a serial of timeline visualizations of historical aerial imagery. These timelines let y'all to bring out the loss of solid reason inward Louisiana past times comparison introduce twenty-four hours aerial imagery alongside aerial imagery going dorsum to the 1930's.

For example, hither is the surface area of Venice together with West Bay every bit it looked inward 1932:


Here's how the same surface area looks today:


Accompanying the aerial imagery are a serial of interviews of people living together with working inward the affected areas. These interviews are supported past times well files together with photos. In combination the audio, photos, interviews together with aerial imagery of Louisiana's solid reason loss supply a powerful study into this ongoing environmental disaster.