Journal of Communication and Language Arts, Volume 2, 2007, p 114. Kim, Y.-C and Ball-Rokeach, S. J (2006) âCivic Engagement from A Communication Infrastructure Perspectiveâ Communication Theory, 16, pp 173-197. Update: January 31, 2012 I caught up with one of our mentors, Nwachukwu Egbunike in Nigeria who is working with a young Nigerian activist and blogger David Habba.
Hurricane Katrina moved ashore over southeast Louisiana and southern Mississippi early on August 29, 2005, as an extremely dangerous Category 4 storm. Credit: GOES Project Science Office. Hurricane Katrina was one of the deadliest hurricanes ever to hit the United States. An estimated 1,833 people died in the hurricane and the flooding that followed in late August 2005, and millions of others were left homeless along the Gulf Coast and in New Orleans.
Early in the morning on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast of the United States. When the storm made landfall, it had a Category 3 rating on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scaleâit brought sustained winds of 100â140 miles per hourâand stretched some 400 miles across.urricane Katrina: Storm and Flooding. By the time Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans early in the morning on Monday, August 29, it had already been raining heavily for hours. When the storm surge (as high as 9 meters in some places) arrived, it overwhelmed many of the cityâs unstable levees and drainage canals.