Launch day

The presentation that I liked was the one by Jack Melton on Resilience in the major hurricanes in the past ten years or so. The first one was on Hurricane Katrina that hit the great city of New Orleans. There were many people stranded on their roofs, attics and even floating cars. There were not that many rescue missions. Most were good citizens with boats and the national guard. My grandparents lived on Lake Pontchartrain and their house was blown into the lake. I was two at the time and did not remember that much but it is devastating.

The next hurricane in 2017 was Hurricane Harvey that hit the lower part of Texas. Many rescuers were ready such as the Cajun Army out of Louisiana. They have hundreds of members with boats and comfort people when they were rescued. There were only 82 people that died. In Hurricane Katrina there were 1,833 people that died. Rescue missions are becoming stronger and more efficient as the years move on. This was a very interesting presentation to me.

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