Inland Flooding High Winds Hurricane Katrina Vs Isaac impact in the state of Mississippi Economic impact 3 damage categories Katrina 2 day path through central Mississippi 27 ID: 514007
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Storm surge
Inland Flooding
High Winds
Hurricane Katrina Vs. Isaac-----
impact
in the state of
Mississippi
Economic impact
3 damage categories
Katrina
:
2 day path through central Mississippi ,27 ft.Roads were impassable due to the damage of surge;Isaac: Isaac rolled in straight from the southeast, the flow around the storm has driven a surge, about 8.3-foot (2.5 m)
Katrina: -As a category5 storm, the highest winds speed is about 175 mph (280 km/h); and then drop to 120 mph winds upon landfall as a category 3 storm;-Covered several counties; wind speed increased hurricane force when reaching landfall Isaac:- Maximum winds 80 mph (130 km/h) as a category 1 storm.
Katrina:- Over 6 miles of flooding - Coastal towns - Property damages and economic losses (about 1/2 can be attributed to flooding)- Cost $22.6 billion (Flooding alone)-60 Billion is insurance claims aloneIsaac:- Reversed flow of Mississippi River for 24 hrs- Drove upriver 50% faster than downstream crest 10 ft high- Excess rainfall balanced out summer drought - Flooding in Gulf
- Caused insurance companies $60 billion - Roads, infrastructure, utility systems $10 billion- Damage to 300,000 homes-Consumer durable good: loss of about 7 billion- Damages to fishing assets: 27% of investment- Energy Corp. had 1.1 million customers out of power
Energy Corp had 787,000 customers out of power; cost $30-40 million Shutdown most of gulf coast oil and natural gas drilling platform and refineries770 billion dollar loss in oil and natural gas prodcution
KATRINA
ISAAC