2.6 Tropical Cyclones - responding to nature's fury

1. in the early hours of 25 December 1974.
2. the local police and community leaders  set up evacuation and medical centres until the federal government got involved.
3. the National Disaster Organisation (NDO) is a federal government body - appointed major General Alan Stretton to coordinate the emergency response.
4. the people of Darwin needed to be evacuated so that there would be minimal deaths as it went further in land.
5.80%
6. this has enabled the communities to be better prepared for possible future cyclones because they will already have evacuation centres and will be able to develop better management plans.
7. On 29th August 2005 Hurricane Katrina hit the gulf of Mexico and the state of Louisiana, killing 1400 people and flooding large areas of New Orleans.
8. the low - lying nature of New Orleans meant that 80% of the city became flooded.
9. there was criticisms towards the governments saying that they were slow and disorganised with their response to the hazard.
10. With cyclone Tracy the organisation and evacuation was very well prepared which enabled 80% of the community to be safe whereas with Hurricane Katrina, the organisation was very poor, very slow and not enough resources were given as aid for them so a lot more people died.