Running head: HURRICANE KATRINA AFFECTS
The affects of Hurricane Katrina on the New Orleans Saints
Abstract
Since it's history New Orleans has been on a highway to danger due to it's geographically location and as the city grew many high visibility businesses joined it on that road, including the National Football League's New Orleans Saints. This paper will outline the parallel histories of the city of New Orleans, their football team and the meteorological conditions specific to that area up until they all collided on the fateful morning of August 29 2005.
THE AFFECTS OF HURRICANE KATRINA ON THE NEW ORLEANS SAINTS.
History of New Orleans and it's geography
New Orleans was founded in 1718 by Jean Baptiste Le Moyne, sieur de Bienville, and named for the regent of France, Philippe II, duc d'Orleans. Between this time and 1803 Louisiana and New Orleans had been under both Spanish and French rule. Finally in 1803 the young United States purchased the land from France for roughly fifteen million dollars (LSM4) in a deal that is appropriately known as the Louisiana Purchase. Nine years after this transaction, the territory of Louisiana became the eighteenth state of the union. (LSM5)
New Orleans is located between the Gulf of Mexico, the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, with the city itself being at an average of six feet below sea level. Natural and manmade levees keep the bodies of water back and on course. If one were to describe the geography of the area in layman's terms the best description would be that of a bowl (Weather). The city of New Orleans sits in the center and the levees make up the sides of the bowl to attempt to keep out the bodies of water.
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