Hey guys, I just finished up my podcast about Hurricane Katrina and the Red Cross, I’ll post a link to it below so you can check it out. The podcast itself is a little longer than 7 minutes and is in a more educational style. I give full background on how bad the hurricane was, while also explaining what caused it/why. I also went over everything that the Red Cross did in the days after while they were providing relief to the millions who needed it. At one point in the podcast as well, I actually go over a photo taken after Katrina, which I think really encompasses the whole situation at that time, while also speaking to people on a level that words can’t describe-I’ll post it below so you can see it as well.

Overall though I really enjoyed making this podcast, it’s a topic that’s important to me, and I think it’s important that everybody can learn about what happened/why it happened, so for one, it dosen’t occur again, but also because it helps to portray the amount of pressure that was put on the Red Cross during this situation.

My group members did similar podcasts as well! They are all about natural disasters and the Red Crosse’s efforts, and you should definitely check them out!

Margaux Beck – https://articulation.photo.blog/blog-feed/

Ashley Granholm – https://americantouristinfo.wordpress.com/

Zou Yuming – https://scarletreptiles.wordpress.com/blog-feed/

Finally, here’s links/citation to all the information I cited during my podcast.

LINKS

http://www.redcross.org – Visit the Red Cross website here

https://freemusicarchive.org/ – Where I got all the music used in my podcast.

CITATIONAL INFORMATION TO SOURCES

Edwards, Chris. “Hurricane Katrina: Remembering the Federal Failures.” CATO INSTITUTE, 15 Aug. 2015, 2:56, www.cato.org/blog/hurricane-katrina-remembering-federal-failures.

“FEMA Faces Intense Scrutiny.” PBS NEWS HOUR, 9 Sep. 2005, 12:02, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/government_programs-july-dec05-fema_09-09

Green, Rebekah. “Impediments to recovery in New Orleans’ Upper and Lower Ninth Ward: one year after Hurricane Katrina.”Disasters, Lisa Bates, Andrew Smyth, Vol.31 Issue 4, Dec 2007, p.311-335.EbscoHost,https://web.a.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail/detail?vid=0&sid=b03629d0-8bb1-4550-93de-d8eaab651a1e%40sdc-v-sessmgr06&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=aph&AN=27525402

Horowitz, Andy. “Hurricane Betsy and the Politics of Disaster in New Orleans’s Lower Ninth Ward, 1965-1967” Journal of Southern History, Vol.80 Issue 4, Nov 2014. P. 893-934. Ebscohost. https://web.b.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail/detail?vid=0&sid=3824e12c-b100-4571-abb5-4ee3b3bd76c5%40sessionmgr103&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=aph&AN=99329720

Seed, Raymond., et al. “New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina. II: The Central Region and the Lower Ninth Ward.” Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, Vol.134 Issue 5, May 2008, p. N/A. ASCE Library, https://ascelibrary-org.proxy.libraries.rutgers.edu/doi/full/10.1061/%28ASCE%291090-0241%282008%29134%3A5%28718%29

Tibbetts, John. “Louisiana’s Wetlands: A Lesson in Nature Appreciation.” Environmental Health perspectives, vol. 114, no.1, Jan. 2006, A40-A43. PubMed Central, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1332684/.

Trouble the Water. Directed by Carl Deal, Tia Lessin. 2008.

Van Heeren, Ivor. “The Failure of the New Orleans Levee System Following Hurricane Katrina and the Pathway Forward.” Public Administration Review, Vol. 67 Issue S1, Dec 2007, p.24-35. Wiley Online Library, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1540-6210.2007.00810.x

Thanks for reading!