Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Katrina
  • Housing management (cruise ship)
  • Logistics

Moved professional healthcare workers to affected areas. Flooding caused problems with transportation and accommodation. Solved with the use of a cruise ship.

Hurricane Katrina was a Category 5 hurricane that made landfall on Florida and Louisiana in August 2005, causing catastrophic damage, particularly in the city of New Orleans and the surrounding areas, and over 1,200 deaths. Subsequent flooding, caused largely as a result of fatal engineering flaws in the flood protection system known as levees] around the city of New Orleans, precipitated most of the loss of lives. The storm was the third major hurricane of the record-breaking 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, as well as the fourth most intense Atlantic hurricane on record to make landfall in the contiguous United States.