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.
On August 29, Katrina weakened rapidly into a Category 1 hurricane after moving inland over southern and central Mississippi. Six hours later, she weakened to a tropical storm just northwest of Meridian, Mississippi. The next day, Katrina turned northeastward over the Tennessee Valley and became a tropical depression.urricane Katrina is the most well known name in recent hurricane history. She was the costliest hurricane in U.S. history and one of the five deadliest hurricanes to ever strike the United States.