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A 5 page review of the many stressors presented by this natural disaster. The author notes both the short and long term impacts and contrasts them to the hope that relocation has given some refugees for a better life. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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The horrors of Hurricane Katrina are not likely to quickly fade from our nations memory.
As Katrina demonstrated quite effectively, hurricanes present one of the most catastrophic of all natural disasters. Their development and maturation offers a fascinating climatologic study, a study which
is intensified when one realizes the damage to life and property which can result with their advent. In addition to their physical impacts, however, there are also their psychological
impacts. The devastation we as a nation have incurred in Louisiana and Mississippi will undoubtedly have both short and long term lasting psychological impacts for those that experienced it
first hand and even for those that experienced it remotely though media broadcasts or interaction with the refugees that the hurricane left in its wake. There are many
stressors associated with these impacts. These are both unique and not so unique stressors, both short term and ongoing. Some will even result in some long term positive
impacts. Unfortunately, it seems that most of the impacts of Hurricane Katrina are overwhelmingly negative and some groups are more susceptible to those impacts than are others.
The normative, i.e. not so unique, stressors of Hurricane Katrina are characterized best by its physical impacts. This hurricane uprooted thousands in its wake.
It destroyed infrastructures, buildings, roads, and entire towns. Szegedy-Maszak (50) emphasizes that entire communities have been eradicated, families separated and entire cities destroyed. To further complicate the
problem the storm left an environment where there were many dangers, toxic waters, live electrical wires, uncontained human waste, and all sorts of biological dangers (Szegedy-Maszak 50). Those impacts
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