Hard engineering methods for storm defence like sea walls and rock barriers are ineffective, expensive, and environmentally unsustainable. Preparation for hurricanes involves checking insurance, documenting home contents, educating about survival, and installing shutters and bolts. Hurricane Katrina was one of the deadliest hurricanes to hit the US, killing over 1,800 and causing $108 billion in damages by destroying levees in New Orleans amid storm surges that left millions homeless along the Gulf Coast.

1. Storm Management
By Chloe,Blessed, and Sakeasi

2. Hard Engineering
Hard engineering is often used for defence against
storms but it isn’t effective. It is often short-term
and and tends to be very expensive. They also
may have a high impact on the landscape or
environment and is unsustainable. Types of hard
engineering methods include: building a sea
wall, building groynes and rock armour or
boulder barriers.

3. Preparation Methods
Here is a list of things you should do to prepare for a hurricane.
1. Check your insurance coverage to make sure that it reflects the current
state of your home.
2. Do a home inventory so that you can save time. Document the contents
of your home.
3. Government can educate people to survive through the hurricane or
tropical storm
4. protect your property by installing:
Hurricane shutters head and foot bolts

4. Hurricane: Katrina
Hurricane Katrina was one of the deadliest hurricanes ever to hit the US. On
estimate around 1,833 people died in the hurricane and the flooding that followed
in August 2005. Millions of other people were left homeless in New Orleans and
along the Gulf Coast. It cost the US $108 billion in damages according to the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The people of New
Orleans made levees but they were destroyed in the storm surges. The hurricane
surprised a lot of people in Florida because Katrina went from tropical storm to
hurricane in less than a day. On the Gulf Coast people were evacuated as it was
declared a state of emergency.