Aileen Wuornos , born February 29, 1956 in Rochester and died October 9, 2002 in Florida, USA, is a prostitute, supposed to be the first American serial killer, sentenced to death by lethal injection for murdering at least seven men between 1989 and 1990. Most of his victims were customers she murdered once alone with them, then rob them. She was executed in 2002 in a Florida prison after spending twelve years in death row.
Albert DeSalvo dubbed the Boston Strangler (September 3, 1931 to November 25, 1973) is a serial killer who would have strangled thirteen women between 1962 and 1964, in Boston. He was arrested by police and sentenced to life imprisonment. He was stabbed to death in 1973 in the prison at Walpole, Mass., was murdered in his cell by inmates. Nevertheless, doubts persist about his guilt.
Albert Fish, born May 19, 1870 and died January 16, 1936, is a notorious serial killer and cannibal American, nicknamed the Vampire in Brooklyn, Ogre Wysteria Gray Man or bogeyman. During almost all of its existence, Albert Fish has engaged in various sexual practices such as voyeurism, sadism, masochism, whipping active, bestiality, prostitution, and even self-castration, pedophilia, coprophilia or still coprophagy. Also cannibalistic, Fish committed his crimes in particular many children.
Charles Manson, born November 12, 1934 in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, is an American criminal. Leader of a community called "the family" in the midst hippie in the early 1960s he became famous by a series of murders in the Los Angeles area in 1969. He was convicted in 1971 of the highly publicized murder of Sharon Tate, wife of Roman Polanski, now pregnant, and four of his friends. He did not himself committed the crimes, but was the sponsor.
Dean Arnold Corll
says Candy Man (December 24, 1939, Fort Wayne - August 8, 1973) is an American serial killer who, with his two young accomplices, Elmer Wayne Henley and David Brooks , has committed numerous rapes and murders in the Houston area Texas. The trio is considered responsible for the murders of at least 27 boys in the early 1970s, the crime being known until after Corll was shot by his accomplice Henley as he tried to kill him.
Donald Harvey is an American serial killer, born in 1952 in Butler County, Ohio. He claims to have murdered 87 people, but officially the balance is between 36 and 57. The particularity of this serial killer is that he has committed all these murders by poisoning its victims. He worked as a nurse in a hospital, and began killing patients injecting various poisons in the pockets infusion. He used it for several different substances including morphine and strychnine, but he especially liked the cyanide he said it was "easier and faster." He thought also of service to some of his victims by giving them death.
Ed Gein is an American serial killer, born August 27, 1906 in La Crosse, Wisconsin, and died of respiratory failure July 26, 1984 (United States). It is said necrophiliac serial killer but he has officially killed "only" two women, murder for which he was convicted. However, it was found in his remains from the body so numerous that it was not possible to attribute all violations of graves which he confessed to being guilty. s was arrested in 1957, was charged after a terrible and gruesome discoveries at his farm (shades, curtains, gloves, etc.. in human skin, human corpses and some pieces in jars in particular).
Faye Copeland (1921 - December 30, 2003) and her husband Ray Copeland were convicted of killing five fishermen. They were also suspected in the disappearance of at least seven other people whose bodies were not found. They became the oldest couple to be sentenced to death in the United States - Faye was 69 years old and Ray was 75 years old when they were convicted. Faye was the oldest woman to be sentenced to death, until his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment in 1999.
Gary Ridgway is a serial killer born February 18, 1949 in Salt Lake City (Utah). He is nicknamed "The Green River Killer" ("the killer of the Green River "). Between 1982 and 1985, dozens of young women, mostly prostitutes, disappeared in southern King County in Washington State. The first victims were discovered weighted by a rock in the background a river that was to give his surname to their murderer. Despite years of investigation and millions of dollars in expenditures, the Green River killer was not apprehended until November 30, 2001. Thanks to DNA, the police identified as the murderer Gary Ridgway, a man who appeared since 1983 in the list of suspects, but that his good nature had allowed to slip through the cracks. In an appearance trite and kind, it proved to be a killing machine as a frigid iceberg.
Genena Jones, born July 13, 1950, is a former pediatric nurse who has worked in several clinics in San Antonio, Texas, is alleged to have killed between 11 and 46 babies and children she had custody, ca 1980-1982. She claimed to have acted to feel needed a heroine of others. His role was played by Susan Ruttan in the TV movie Deadly Medicine (1991) and Alicia in the movie Bartva Mass Murder (2002).
Herbert Baumeister was a serial killer, he was born April 7, 1947 in Indiana, and died July 3, 1996 by suicide in Ontario's Pinery Provincial Park in Canada. Nicknamed Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde, he used to strangle his victims and practice of sexual games with them. In addition to killing his estate, Baumeister is also suspected of killing nine men, whose bodies were found in rural areas along the corridor of Interstate 70 in Indiana and Ohio between Columbus and Indianapolis. Julie Baumeister told authorities that her husband had done more than 100 Travel in Ohio.
Herman Webster Mudgett or HH Holmes (May 16, 1860 to May 7, 1896, better known by the pseudonym "Dr. Henry Howard Holmes, was an American serial killer. Holmes captured and killed probably a hundred customers to his hotel in Chicago, he opened at the Universal Exhibition of 1893. He confessed 27 murders, although only nine have been confirmed. Holmes is often quoted as the first American serial killer.
Henry Lee Lucas (August 23, 1936 to March 13, 2001) was a killer American serial, convicted of murder and is one of the most prolific killers in America. In 1952, he spent a year in prison for theft. In 1960 he killed his mother, who had been horribly mistreated. He was sentenced to 20 to 40 years in prison. Model prisoner, he was released in 1970 but arrested again in 1971 for attempted kidnapping. Paroled in 1975, he made the acquaintance of Ottis Toole in 1976 and his accomplice with him begin a series of murders since 1978, especially hitchhikers or employees of service stations: Lucas strangled, stabbed in particularly women, while Toole killed Instead, men with guns. Lucas is arrested for carrying weapons in 1983 and confessed to two murders. It will begin with a confession of more than 360 murders, 199 were confirmed. He died March 13, 2001 in his cell of natural causes.
Herbert Mullin born April 18, 1947, is an American serial killer who committed 13 murders in California in the early 1970s. In 1972, Mullin was 25 and had moved back with her parents in Santa Cruz. At that time, he heard voices in his head that told him that an earthquake was imminent, and that California could save only through the murder. The birthday Mullin, April 18 was the anniversary of the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco, which seemed to be very significant. Mullin thought the Vietnam War had produced enough American deaths to prevent earthquakes, in a sort of blood sacrifice to nature, but that the magnitude of the war decreases rapidly towards the end of 1972, it should start to kill people in order to have enough deaths to take away the earthquake
Jeffrey Dahmer (born May 21, 1960 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, died November 28, 1994), nicknamed "the cannibal from Milwaukee, was an American serial killer who confessed to murdering seventeen young men between 1978 and 1991 (sixteen of his murders that occurred between 1987 and 1991). Dahmer committed his first murder by killing Steven Hicks, whom he had invited him, after taking a hitchhiker; this June 18, 1978, Jeffrey will kill and dissect "because he did not want him parte. Dahmer killed mainly in order to satisfy his fantasies necrophilia. His goal was to have total control over the bodies of his victims. His modus operandi was almost always the same: he invited its future victims in his apartment for a photo shoot, drugs with sleeping pills and then strangled before sexually abusing their bodies. He dismembered dismembered and then keeping their body parts as trophies.
John Wayne Gacy Jr . Born March 17, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois, USA and died May 10, 1994 in Joliet, Illinois, is one of the killers America's most famous series, dubbed the "Killer Clown" because he used to dress up as clowns to entertain children in hospitals. He liked having homosexual relations with people much younger than him, he subsequently murdered. He began to recruit in his entourage when he proposed doing odd jobs for young people in his neighborhood. Moreover, most of his victims were his employees. He liked being handcuffed and brutally raped before disposing of bodies. After an unsuccessful attempt to plead insanity at his trial he was sentenced to death. He was executed May 10, 1994 by lethal injection.
John Allen Muhammad (31 December 1960-10 November 2009) is an American spree killer, dubbed the "Washington sniper" that hit the Washington, DC, seat ten people with the help of Lee Boyd Malvo (the latter then aged 18, arrested in same time as Muhammad, plead psychological dependence vis-à-vis Muhammad). He was sentenced to death and executed November 10, 2009.
Juan Corona, born in 1934, is an American serial killer of Mexican origin. He was convicted of 25 murders in 1971 as itinerant workers, men who were found buried in shallow graves in the orchards of fruit ranches in Sutter County, California, along the Feather River, north of Yuba City, California, where they were seasonal work. At that time, these horrible crimes represented the worst mass murders and the most notorious in the history of the United States. The local sheriff said that even more men had been buried there.
Nannie Doss (born in 1906 in Blue Mountain, Alabama - 1965) is an American serial killer. She is responsible for the deaths of eleven people between 1920 and 1954. She was eventually convicted of murder in October 1954, when her fifth husband died in a small hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In all, it killed four of her five husbands by poisoning them with rat poison mixed with food, she is also responsible for the deaths of two children, his two sisters, mother, son and nephew. He was given the nickname of "Grandma laughed nervously" and "black widow gay." Doss was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1955. At her trial she said she had not killed to get insurance policies she had subscribed for its victims. She says she killed for "true love".
Ottis Toole (March 5, 1947 to September 15, 1996) was a serial killer and cannibal American who was convicted of six murders in 1984 when he confessed in a centaine.Il was born in 1947 Jacksonville, Florida. Violated since an early age by his father, then by his stepfather, he is tricked into male prostitution by her older sister and fiendish rituals initiated by his grandmother. He commits his first murder with cannibalism 14 years, he was arrested for the first time in August 1964 for theft, but soon released. His real career killer begins in 1976 when he met Henry Lee Lucas, who becomes his lover. He was arrested in 1983 in Florida and convicted of the murder of George and Ada Johnson Sonnenberg then admits 4 more murders Adam Walsh, then have 108 homicides committed with Lucas. He is sentenced to death penalty in 1984 then changed to life imprisonment. He died in prison of liver disease opportunistic AIDS-related September 15, 1996.
Randall "Randy" Woodfield, born December 26, 1950, is an American serial killer also known as the "I-5 Killer" or "IE Bandit" for the I-5 corridor, from Washington state to California, where he committed several sexual assaults and murders. A native of Oregon, he was convicted of three murders and is suspected of killing up to 18 people. Woodfield is incarcerated at the penitentiary of the state of Oregon. Richard Angelo, said the "angel of death", is an American serial killer born August 29, 1962 in Long Island, upstate New York and sentenced to killing 25 people.
Richard Angelo, said the "angel of death", is an American serial killer born August 29, 1962 in Long Island, upstate New York and sentenced for the murders of 25 people. As most of the "nurses" of death, the procedure of Richard Angelo was: trying to impersonate a hero, it's intoxicating and patients when they were near death, tried to save them appear as a hero. From an interview recorded: "I wanted to create respiratory failure or other problem in patients who have been saved through my speech because I had no confidence in me and I felt almost useless. "
Ricardo" Richard " Ramírez (El Paso, Texas, February 29, 1960) is a serial killer U.S. has prevailed in Los Angeles and San Francisco in 1985. Born into a Mexican family of seven children he was the youngest, he was dubbed by the American press the "Night Stalker" (in French the "Night Stalker" ) with reference to the song Night Prowler AC / DC, who was the favorite song of Richard Ramirez.Il was sentenced to death for have committed 11 rapes and 13 murders. Ramirez thought he was some kind of devil, ruthless, cruel, deciding the life and death of each, and elusive.
Richard Cottingham born November 25, 1946, is a serial killer from New Jersey, operating between 1977 and 1980. A famous nickname was the "Torso Killer" (Killer torsos) because it often left a chest behind him so that victims are not identifiable. Excerpt from a site about serial killers: "He has two brothers and sisters. His parents were married. No particular difficulties during his childhood. Although he was tried and sentenced for the rape and murder of 5 women, he recently claimed in an interview to have killed between 80 and 100 women, mostly prostitutes.
Richard Chase (May 23, 1950 to December 26, 1980) is an American serial killer who killed six people in California. It was dubbed the Vampire of Sacramento because he drank the blood of his victims and engaged in acts of cannibalism. Psychotic delusional, he did that to prevent the Nazis transformed his blood powder via poison they had placed under his soap dish.
Ted Bundy, said "the killer of women, born November 24, 1946 in Burlington (Vermont) and died January 24, 1989 in Raiford (Florida) is an American serial killer. Beautiful, intelligent and ambitious, he trained as a lawyer and works especially for the Department of Justice and as a volunteer at CAU. The case of Ted Bundy was a real shock to the American, who until then considered serial killers like crazy excluded from the living world: Ted Bundy was exactly the opposite, a man who had everything to succeed and that nobody doubted he could be a murderer.
The Zodiac or Zodiac , also known as the Zodiac Killer is a serial killer unidentified that are attributed with certainty 5 murders, 2 attempted murders and a kidnapping committed in northern California in 1968 and 1969. But beyond these facts, it was suspected of a series of murders (between 37 and 200 according to the authors) committed between 1966 and 1978. The known victims of the Zodiac were mostly young couples who were in their car, stopped at the dusk in a remote location (car park, lake). In both cases, the killer approached very quickly and immediately opened fire from outside the car.
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The Sturmabteilung or SA (German word for "Storm Troopers" Sturm but the word also means "storm" and "storm") formed a paramilitary organization of the NSDAP (Nazi party). They played an important role in access to power of Adolf Hitler in the 1930s. SAs are often called "brownshirts " because of the color of the uniform they wear from 1925.
Sturmabteilung The term comes from the special assault troops used by Germany during the offensive of March 1918. Replacing large groups of armed, the SA were organized into small teams of a few soldiers. They allowed the Germans to push the British and French troops of several tens of kilometers.
Hitler created the AG in Munich in 1921 by bringing together former fighters, disgruntled officers and members of the corps, drawn mostly from nearby streams socialist movements, non-Marxist, under the authority of Ernst Röhm . They acted as marshals at rallies of the Nazi party, then took an important increasing in the power structure. The SA were responsible for numerous acts of violence in the 1920s, mainly in street battles with groups like the Communist Rote Frontkämpferbund (the Union's defense German Communist Party), and were banned after the attempted putsch Hitler November 9, 1923.
The organization was authorized again in 1926 and played an increasing role. In 1933, after the election of the NSDAP, the SA considered themselves as replacements for the German regular army (Reichswehr), since convicted of being the architects of the National Socialist revolution. Some tensions appeared between Roehm and Hitler as well, between the statesman and the leader of a band of faithful to the revolutionary spirit.
order to silence the reactionary spirit of the German army and restore order within the party, Hitler, driven by some dignitaries including Heinrich Himmler, the SS Reichsführer and hostile environments a second revolution advocated by Röhm agreed to purge the SA by arresting at of the Night of Long Knives , key leaders including Röhm SA. It was finally shot dead in his cell. After this episode, the SA has not played a marginal role in the affairs of the Reich, however, distinguishing himself during the Kristallnacht pogrom in participating. From 1934's Viktor Lutze who heads the SA "diminished" until his death in 1943, Wilhelm Scheppmann succeeded him until the end of the war and the dissolution of SA in 1945.
The official anthem of the SA was Horst-Wessel-Lied , which later became the anthem of the party. This song was referring, as its name suggests, the young activist Horst Wessel elevated to martyr after his assassination in 1930.
Schutzstaffel: SS
The Schutzstaffel, German "protective squadron" or the SS is one of the main organizations of the Nazi regime. Founded in 1925, initially responsible for close protection of the Führer, Adolf Hitler, the SS becomes, over the years, a veritable state within a state, accumulating powers and duties and from a small group to a huge organization . She plays a political role through the Allgemeine SS (General SS), repressive with the RSHA, the Ordnungspolizei and concentration camps, through the ideological and racial Lebensborn and Ahnenerbe and military after the creation of the Waffen-SS. She is also the organizer and executive of the destruction of European Jews, whether in the mobile killing operations perpetrated in Poland and the Soviet Union by Einsatzgruppen, followed by the establishment of extermination camps .
Entirely devoted to the Führer, it is directed, for almost its entire existence by Heinrich Himmler. Traversed by deep internal rivalries, in permanent conflict with other agencies (including the military) or various personalities of the Third Reich, has a complex organization, moving accumulating duplication and contradictions, it is nonetheless one of the most effective and most deadly of the Nazi terror. During the Nuremberg trials, it is declared a criminal organization.
The birth of the SS
The beginnings of the SS are particularly common and nothing apart from his birth through the myriad factions of nationalist and pan-German völkisch waving the Weimar Republic in the early 1920s.
In March 1923, Adolf Hitler, President NSDAP since 1921, is surrounded by a first bodyguard, the Stabswache (guard), composed of eight activists of the first hour, which Rudolf Hess. After barely two months old and due to internal conflicts and the departure of some of its members, Stabswache disappears immediately reborn as the Stosstrupp Hitler (Hitler platoon shock), which is always that a handful of members.
In 1925, after the failed Beer Hall Putsch and the banning of the Nazi party, the SA and all their components following the abortive attempt coup, Hitler confided to his chauffeur, Julius Schreck , former member of the Stosstrupp, the creation of a new guard, under the name of Schutzstaffel: The SS was born.
Not having at that time that some members, the SS runs from September 21, 1925, when the order is given to each section of the Nazi Party to establish a squad of ten protection men, except in Berlin, where the maximum is raised to twenty members. In April 1926, Joseph Berchtold, a former papermaker and former commander of the Stosstrupp returned from Austria where he had taken refuge after the attempted coup and took command of the SS. The role of the latter is recognized by the Führer July 4, 1926, when he solemnly calls Blutfahne (blood flag), the emblem of the 1923 coup.
During all his years, the SS is in open conflict with SA, created by Ernst Roehm, who has several thousand members and is the single shock troops of the party in 1928, the SS is limited to 280 men and is strictly dependent on the SA tries to confine subordinate roles. In March 1927, Berchtold resigned and was replaced by Erhard Heiden, whose role is also ephemeral. On 6 January 1929, Hitler appoints new Reichsfuhrer SS Heinrich Himmler.
The rise
On 30 January 1933 Hitler came to power and was appointed chancellor. SS account at this time 52,000 members against three million for the SA.
While the terror of the SA street has more reason to be after taking power, the new chancellor must balance support of the conservative, military and industrial The violence of the SA is unleashed throughout Germany, including creating wild in March 1933, the concentration camp at Oranienburg, or abuses in the Berlin district of Köpenick.
In terms of repression of opponents, the SS is no exception and the SD cards are proving very effective: it is used in particular to populate the Dachau camp, founded by the Bavarian police in March 1933 , but whose responsibility is transferred, April 2, 1933, the SS by Himmler, who became commander of the Bavarian political police. End of June 1933, Theodor Eicke , later Inspector General is appointed commander of the camps at Dachau, which marks the beginning of the organization of the Nazi concentration camp. In 1933
and 1934, the SA accumulating demonstrations of force, mass parades that bring up to 80,000 participants in Breslau, it also increases its demands in order to have posts of responsibility within the Nazi regime, continues to proclaim that the revolution n has not yet started and enter into open conflict with the Reichswehr it intends to replace a popular army.
Meanwhile, the SS enters into valuable contacts with industrialists, military officers, scientists and intellectuals, landowners within the Circle of Friends Reichsführer SS. She remains loyal to Adolf Hitler and also showed signs of respectability. End of 1933, the latter gives his personal guard the official title of the SS Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler. "
The termination of the trusteeship of SA
In 1934, Heinrich Himmler and his deputy Reinhard Heydrich direct are, with Hermann Goering, the artisans of the Night of the Long Knives, which leads to the elimination of SA as a political force and allowing the SS to depend directly on the Führer.
With over four million members, totally devoted to its leader, Ernst Röhm, the SA requires social and economic reforms, frightening the business community and the traditional conservative parties, and his willingness to take control of the army raised the opposition of military leaders including Hitler an urgent need.
Having concocted a plot by Röhm to take power and approved of Hitler 30 June and 1 July 1934, members of the SS decapitate the SA .
The treatment made a hundred victims whose Röhm himself (murdered by Theodor Eicke, inspector of future concentration camps and then commander of the 3rd SS Panzer Division Totenkopf). Part of the executions took place in the prison yard Stadelheim in Munich, the squad being controlled by Sepp Dietrich . SS eliminates a rival organization to which it belonged still formally.
The Allgemeine SS
In the words of George H. Stein, members of the Allgemeine SS, 250 000 men in 1939, had "no specific obligation to complete except that remain in permanent state of alert as during the struggle for power." Many members of the Allgemeine SS are assigned to guard concentration camps, with a nominal rank in the Waffen SS, they serve in the Totenkopf-Wachtsturmbanne, under the direct authority of the commanders of the camps, then reattached Amt in B WHA from March 3, 1942
The RSHA RSHA or ( "Central Office for Reich Security) was an organization created by the Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler September 22, 1939 through the merger of SD, the Gestapo and Kriminalpolizei to neutralize the" enemies of the Reich "and in particular , "undesirables".
His first was the SS chief Reinhard Heydrich-Obergruppenfuehrer until his assassination June 4, 1942, then the SS-Gruppenführer Ernst Kaltenbrunner to the end of the war.
The Waffen-SS The Waffen SS
is the military component of the SS. Upon taking power by the Nazis, it acquires commando armed, Politische Bereitschaften, whose mission is to hunt down opponents. After the night of the Long Knives, the commandos are grouped into a single unit, the Verfügungstruppe (VT), despite the reluctance of the Reichswehr.
The VT was elevated to division (future 2nd Panzer Division SS Das Reich), by decree of Adolf Hitler in 1938. VT and the Totenkopf units formed guards of concentration camps, participate in the Polish campaign. She reported them for their brutality, denounced by the Wehrmacht General Johannes Blaskowitz. The Waffen SS then took part in the campaign in France, with three divisions and a half. If these divisions have the advantage of being fully motorized, they play no role.
In 1941, five divisions of the Waffen SS were involved in Operation Barbarossa. Equipped with armored divisions in 1942, the Waffen SS becomes a formidable reputation for ferocity and fighting on the Eastern front, especially after 1943. "During the last two years of conflict, division [armor] of the Waffen SS often slowed and stopped often for a time the inexorable advance of the Soviets."
The Waffen SS is the backbone of the German defense in the Battle of Normandy and the spearhead of the German offensive at the Battle of the Bulge. It is part of the last four of the defenders of the Nazi regime during the Battle of Berlin.
At the end of the war, the Waffen SS has 38 divisions and nearly 900 000 men, of very variable quality and origins of the most diverse of Volksdeutschen (people of German or Germanic origin living outside the Reich) volunteers French or Belgian , the Baltic States to the Bosnian Muslims. At that time, the Waffen-SS origins, with its recruitment criteria physical, racial and ideological particularly strict and rigorous training and testing, is a distant memory.
Throughout his journey, the Waffen SS is distinguished by the number atrocities and killings that many of its units are responsible. His war crimes are legion, the killing of prisoners during the campaign in France in 1940 at the Battle of the Bulge, the murder of 14,000 civilians in the Ukraine in 1941 to crimes committed in Italy or France in 1944.
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina caused damage significant along the coastline, striking Louisiana with winds up to 224 mph before sweeping Mississippi, Alabama and western Florida. Hurricane Katrina is one of the most powerful hurricanes to hit the United States and also one of the largest (radius of more than 650 km including 190 of hurricane force winds of tropical storm and 340). His eye is 40 kilometers wide and its winds could reach 280 km / h. The evacuation of New Orleans was attempted because of the risk of flooding of part of the town, built under the sea level to sea, waves 11 meters were observed. 28 to the evening Katrina had already killed 9. After the hurricane, we found several U.S. states under water. Katrina has plunged Louisiana and New Orleans in desolation. This hurricane has officially died 1836.
forecast of 28 August for three days
Genesis Katrina Tropical depression led to Katrina was detected Aug. 23 in the Bahamas. There is a controversy to name 10 or 12 of the year, but this system was then appointed The fourth tropical storm of the year August 25 and touched briefly on South Florida that same day, the status of a storm scale.
storm crossed the Florida and regeneration in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico Aug. 26 and depression deepened to 971 millibars, which made her go to category 2 of the Saffir-Simpson. At 9:00 GMT, Katrina passed to level 3 with pressure of 945 mb. Approaching land, it weakened slightly to return to level 4 (but the damage of a hurricane are also related to the speed of the eye).
August 31, Katrina became an extratropical storm dumped water quantity in the range of 50-110 mm on Quebec in 12 hours and several wind gusts of 50 to 98 km / h . In the Saguenay and the North Shore several roads were washed away, some sections of Route 138 have been cutting away the rest of the North Shore of Quebec which greatly complicated the supply of food and gasoline.
Threat to New Orleans
Some areas of New Orleans are up to 6 meters below sea level, areas where rain water is pumped and discharged into the sea dikes of 4 feet high protect the city, but the possible rise in sea level due to Katrina could reach 6 feet. And if the hurricane was going as planned to the east, the waters of Lake Pontchartrain might also invade the city.
These threats of flooding and severe flooding, Mayor Ray Nagin ordered the evacuation of the town and established shelter of last resort for people who could not evacuate the city, including the room Sports of Louisiana Superdome, already used in 1998 during Hurricane Georges. President George W. Bush declared a state of emergency in Louisiana, two days before the arrival of the hurricane on the coast.
Sunday, August 28, The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has predicted catastrophic damage on the city, up to the partial or total destruction of half of the homes and major damage, which could make the city uninhabitable for weeks especially if waste oil refineries were polluting the nearby town.
The arrival
In the early morning hours of August 29 (Monday), the storm surge from Katrina engulfed most parts south of the delta, flooding dozens of small fishing ports. As the hurricane turned north, its winds are blowing in the opposite direction clockwise, pushed the storm surge on the east side of New Orleans, an area almost open the Gulf of Mexico. In addition to dams, only one large lake-like lagoon, some endangered wetlands, and a thin barrier islands from erosion victims, stood between the sea and city districts. This area was also another major weakness: both channels.
Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet and Gulf Intracoastal Waterway were used as conduits to allow water to pass outside the dikes and reach the heart of the city. These two channels are linked and flow into Industrial Canal, a third waterway that runs through the city, connecting the Mississippi to Lake Pontchartrain - the latter also, unfortunately, connected to the Gulf. This channel has quickly received the floodwaters of the other two channels and the lake.
Around 4:30 am, witnesses reported having seen water in the neighborhoods on both sides of the Industrial Canal, entering through cracks and holes in the walls. Shortly after, the flood waters began to go over the dam the more outside, protecting the parish of St. Bernard, the low-lying suburb immediately south-east of New Orleans. Water has eroded the walls of earth and began to carry away large portions.
At 6:10 am, the eye of Hurricane Katrina arrived in Buras, about 80 kilometers southeast of New Orleans. Fortunately for the city, the storm had met a cooler area of the gulf and was back down to category 3 with maximum winds less than 209 km / h. For cons, the wave was still that of a more powerful storm and the levees continued to yield. At first, the walls protecting eastern New Orleans, a suburb north of St. Bernard, were submerged, and many have collapsed.
The water started to flood huge areas. Then the waves are also passed over the Industrial Canal walls and have opened cracks in many places. At about 7:45 am, a breach has missed a huge wave in the Lower 9th Ward, a poor slum in the east, and in areas west of the canal.
In dozens of neighborhoods, people suddenly saw the water running flood the streets, then climb to the bottom of their houses, sometimes in minutes. For the majority of them, it was too late to escape and there was no exit route. Caught by surprise, hundreds of people drowned. Thousands more rushed in the attic to take refuge on rooftops beaten by rain and wind. By mid-morning, almost half of New Orleans, plus all the parishes of St. Bernard and Plaquemines to the south were flooded.
Much of the central part of the city was still above water and it seemed that the worst was over. However, earlier that morning, the concrete walls and steel channel 17th Street and London Avenue, two drainage channels open on Lake Pontchartrain, had suddenly been broken in three places. The water rose more slowly in a wider area, this time invading the richest neighborhoods near the edges of the lake. Integrity structural integrity of a dam or a protective wall can not be guaranteed once the water starts to go over, but in this case, the water never reached the top, the walls have collapsed before. The waves rushing through the breaches of drainage canals was released gradually throughout the day and part of the night, progressing ever further south into downtown, street after street winner. The next morning the water had filled most of the central basin of the city, stopping only about 1.5 kilometers from the river, the highest part of the city. About 80% of the city was flooded. In some places, the water only happened to the knees, while in others it was over six feet deep, well above the rafters of houses.
Katrina's eye passed about 15 km east of New Orleans, and was again headed toward the Gulf, its power barely diminished. The hurricane struck for the third and final time near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, near the border with Louisiana. To the east, storm surge caused by the strong north-west of Katrina is mounted higher than New Orleans, against the coast harder and higher, reaching up to eight meters. The storm devastated the Mississippi coast, sweeping away thousands of houses, buildings, cars and shops in just a few minutes. 90% of the structures of the waterfront near the port of Biloxi were destroyed.
floating casinos were washed away hundreds of meters. The storm surge penetrated 10 km the interior, twice as far along rivers and other passages. Alabama and northwest Florida have also suffered extensive damage caused by wind, flooding and tornadoes, and 238 people have died.
The storm also hit the oil installations at sea and coastal refineries. Before landfall, the industry had evacuated workers from 615 platforms (15% of 4000 total present in the Gulf), and non-coastal ports were also closed. Louisiana Valero's refinery in St. Charles has been flooded by a water meter and had to cease operations for two weeks. When oil prices reached 70 dollars a barrel in mid-week - leading to higher gasoline prices - President Bush announced that he would lend fuel to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to calm markets .
Review
As with any major disaster, the death toll was given as a guide, the figures are broad estimates certainly inaccurate. It drew a distinction between United States, countries directly affected by the disaster, and countries that lost citizens in that country just as the drama.
Review of Thursday, September 22, 2005.
* At least 141,500 victims are housed in centers and shelters set up in at least 18 states and Washington. * More than one million Louisiana may have been displaced by the disaster. * More than 200,050 homes could be relocated by the government for nearly five years.
Economic Consequences
Hurricane Katrina has had a significant economic impact but in other states over time. Most experts agree that Katrina is the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history. On 15 February 2006, faced criticism and protests, the Bush administration announced it would ask Congress for an additional 4.2 billion dollars to compensate victims of hurricanes Katrina and Rita. This amount should be added to 7.7 billion already allocated in 2005.
ethnic origins and social consequences for victims
Official statistics showed that if the majority of victims were black, the white community has suffered more proportionally than the African American community.
According to L'Express newspaper, quoting Reuters, in Biloxi, "the Mecca of gambling, which has for nearly ten years that figure mecca for the disinherited of the Mississippi came for a job in hotels or casinos.
"Many had no means of escape, "said Alan LeBreton, a janitor who lived 41 years on the waterfront" is a crime and people do not accept it. "
wealthiest residents, anticipating the official guidelines, have mostly won the northern Mississippi and neighboring states of Alabama and Georgia, crowding into motels and empty gas stations and convenience stores their last reserves.
But their poorest citizens do not own a car or can afford a night hotel. "We could not do that, it was impossible," said Willie Rhett, bus driver forced to stay in Biloxi until Katrina.
American photographer Stanley Greene said: "Coincidentally, in white neighborhoods, supermarkets have been opened to people, in solidarity. In black neighborhoods, it has guards to prevent them from returning! (...) The goal is not to bring people back, but to make New Orleans a white city and lucrative. (...) Some investors are looking around the owners of destroyed houses. They bought for 10,000 dollars. Katrina is the largest operation of spoliation of all time. "
Persuaded to have been left in the front line of disaster described as" historic "by George Bush, many people now express their anger - a tension that could partly explain the looting of upscale suburbs.
Mississippi, birthplace of the blues and segregation, was in 2004 the second poorest state in the United States. 21.6% of its inhabitants live below the poverty and ethnic divisions often overlapping social cleavages. Indeed, for many victims of Katrina, the origin of the logistical difficulties around this disaster is closely linked to racial discrimination.
Reverend Jesse Jackson, a defender of the black cause in the United States points out that more 120 000 people earning less than 8 000 USD per year, mostly black population, have no access to private vehicles, and some is too old or ill to flee. And said that the budget used for war in Iraq would have been more useful to help build protections in New Orleans.
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