English, 16.12.2019 13:31 hokamidat

Hurricane katrina: the overview; new orleans is inundated as 2 levees fail; much of gulf coast is crippled; toll rises part a: which two statements express the central ideas of the text?

a. authorities in new orleans weren’t prepared for the chaos and destruction that would result from the levees breaking and the resulting flood.

b. the destruction caused by the flooding in new orleans was equal to what residents were expecting from hurricane katrina.

c. if residents had been given adequate warning about the hurricane and incoming flood by the government, countless lives could have been saved.

d. despite the widespread destruction caused by hurricane katrina and the flood, displaced residents are being adequately provided for by volunteers.

e. evacuation efforts for residents of new orleans, and other gulf coast states, were severely impeded by the damage caused by the hurricane and flooding.

f. louisiana didn’t have the proper plans in place to respond to a disaster of this magnitude, and because of this they lost more citizens than expected.

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