MEANING: This name derives from the African (Yorùbá) name “Bolanle”, composed of three elements: “bo” (come, coming) plus “ǫlà” (riches, wealth) plus “ilé” (home). In turn the name means “finds wealth at home, meets wealth at home”.

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when an animal (like a dog or a cat) gives birth, the little puppy or the kitty is the ‘seki’ to its mother. the word ‘seki’ refers to an animal’s child. Combination of the word 개 (gae), meaning dog, and the word 새끼 (sae-kki), meaning offspring or young.

New Orleans, Louisiana

Nola Origin and Meaning The name Nola is a girl’s name of Gaelic, Latin origin meaning “white shoulder”.

Nola is a common nickname (Nuala, pronounced “NEW-la” is the Gaelic diminutive equivalent). NOLA is also an acronym for New Orleans, Louisiana; and it’s also the name of a city in Italy near Mt. Vesuvius.

“In the 1960s, New Orleans gossip columnist Betty Guillaud allegedly coined the moniker while comparing ‘the Big Easy’ to ‘the Big Apple,’” Reader’s Digest writer Juliana Labianca writes. While New Yorkers were perpetually running around, laid-back life in New Orleans reigned, hence, The Big Easy.

city of New Orleans, Louisiana

According to recent crime data, New Orleans’ violent crime rate is several times above the national average, and its property crime rate is also significantly higher than the rest of America’s. New Orleans, then, is not among the cities generally considered completely safe for travelers, unfortunately.

New Orleans continue to lead the nation with the highest official poverty rate among the 50 largest metro areas in 2017, according to Census data released in September 2018. Further, some 13.32% of the population are considered very low income at below 50% of the poverty line.

There is no doubt Louisiana is poor. Poor due to three main reasons: A lack of diversification due to very poor leadership from the mid-1960s onward. This poor leadership is exacerbated by a dependence on continued high prices of oil and any dips in the oil market bust economic planning.

The federal government responded to an estimated $160 billion in economic damage from Hurricane Katrina with roughly $114.5 billion in recovery efforts. And after the $70.2 billion in damage from Hurricane Sandy, the federal government spent $56 billion for relief.

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Hurricane Katrina

One reason Katrina and the floods it caused broke through New Orleans’s levees was because the storm was too strong. But reports since the hurricane have also exposed another culprit: shoddy engineering. This is just one of the many ways the federal government failed to prevent a disaster in the lead-up to Katrina.

Hurricane Katrina was the largest and 3rd strongest hurricane ever recorded to make landfall in the US. In New Orleans, the levees were designed for Category 3, but Katrina peaked at a Category 5 hurricane, with winds up to 175 mph.

The flooding of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina was a human-made disaster, not a natural one. The flood-protection system for the city had been poorly designed and maintained. In short, it was a failure of critical infrastructure at multiple levels that nearly doomed one of America’s major cities.

A decade after hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, experts say the flooding that caused over 1,800 deaths and billions of dollars in property damage could have been prevented had the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers retained an external review board to double-check its flood-wall designs. Dr. J.

The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, predicts hurricanes and other severe weather events. NOAA says the first problem with this idea is there is no good evidence that a nuclear bomb would weaken or stop a hurricane.

Preventing the Next Flood Disaster

1. Modernize the Army Corps of Engineers. The Army Corps’ project planning process is outdated and flawed which contributes to inadequate projects and environmental damage.
2. Adopt Natural Flood Protection.
3. Abandon Over-Reliance On Structural Protections Like Levees and Floodwalls.

Within four days of Katrina’s landfall on Monday, Aug. 29, 2005, then-President George W. Bush signed a $10.4 billion aid package and ordered 7,200 National Guard troops to the region. A few days later, he requested — and Congress approved — an additional $51.8 billion in aid.

FEMA makes emergency grants available as soon as a hurricane or other catastrophe is declared a disaster by the U.S. president. The agency can offer as much as $30,000 per household, but most payments are much smaller. The average payout to Hurricane Katrina victims was $7,114. For Sandy it was $8,016.

The Salvation Army responded to the immediate needs of survivors following the 2005 Hurricanes by providing shelter, food, water, ice, cleaning supplies, baby supplies, and hygiene products as well as spiritual and emotional care. All told, the Army helped more than 1.7 million people in at least 30 states.