Chapter 912: 20 The largest natural disaster in US history! Director Guan Zu Media!

August 24, 2005.

Afternoon,

New York Central Avenue, by the roadside, a new milk tea shop opened.

Named—"Bawang Chaji"!

This is a store specializing in selling milk tea, and don't say, it's quite lively.

Why?

Because this is a milk tea shop opened by the respected Chairman Director Guan of Family Properties, and citizens often run over to support it.

Most Westerners like coffee and don't have a high acceptance of tea.

But adding the element of Mr. Director Guan, then liking it a little is not a problem at all.

Director Guan Zu leaned in the booth in the corner,

Holding a cup of original milk tea with double pearls in his hand... hmm, brown sugar pearls, the taste is great!

"Suck suck~~~"

"Chew chew chew~~"

He was watching the TV hanging on the wall,

At this time, the TV was playing the news channel of ABC Channel 7 (New York).

"In the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn, a 17-year-old Korean-American teenager was robbed by four African-American men on his way home from school this evening and was stabbed to death..."

"In a mixed community in Queens, three African-American men pried open the door and broke into a white family's home late last night to commit robbery, shot and killed the landlord couple and their 12-year-old daughter, and then fled with jewelry and mobile phones..."

Director Guan Zu shook his head,

Deserving of being black brothers, awesome.

Not long after, the news was about to end, and began to broadcast weather news...

"The tropical disturbance in the southeast waters of the Bahamas has officially strengthened into a tropical storm, entered the Gulf of Mexico, and the National Hurricane Center of the United States has named it 'Katrina'..."

The screen switched to a satellite cloud map, a spiral cloud system was entrenched in the Atlantic Ocean, and the red arrow clearly indicated the direction of movement.

"Currently, the center wind speed of 'Katrina' has risen to 65 kilometers per hour..."

The milk tea in Director Guan Zu's hand paused.

Katrina?

This hurricane, he had some impression.

Why?

This is the largest natural disaster in the United States... that's right, the largest.

Affecting seven states, more than 2,000 deaths, more than 200 billion in losses... of course, this is paper data, it is estimated that the real situation will be even more serious.

It also had another achievement: the powerful and proud United States had to announce that it hoped to receive international aid.

Director Guan Zu's lips curled.

This might be a good opportunity for Umbrella Properties and Happiness Properties to enter the field after the disaster and harvest support rates.

As for reminding the United States?

Sorry,

I am a gangster!

Li Shengdan and Barney Ross saw the evil smile on their boss's face, he must be thinking of something bad.

After getting along for this period of time, they had basically understood their boss, sometimes serious, sometimes good, sometimes bad, sometimes pit... a very complicated person.

1 hour later,

Xiao Fu in Los Angeles received Director Guan Zu's order—10 hours later, send a large number of reporters from the "Freedom Media Group" to New Orleans.

New Orleans, is the city with the greatest loss in this hurricane. It has nothing to do with chicken wings; it is the largest port city in the United States besides New York.

To the north is Lake Pontchartrain.

To the south is the Mississippi River.

It is sandwiched between the two sides.

Once a flood occurs, or a tide, the sea level and water level will rise.

Therefore, New Orleans built water-blocking dams on the embankments on both sides.

Generally, there will be no problems.

But this hurricane was particularly large. The hurricane drove the seawater of the Gulf of Mexico from east to west into Lake Pontchartrain, and then the lake water directly exceeded the dam, finally collapsing the dam and flooding the entire New Orleans.

Most of the people who died in this hurricane were in New Orleans.

Another point worth mentioning is the demographics of New Orleans: African Americans account for 59%, white people (mostly Hispanic, because this state was sold to the United States by Spain) account for 25%, and the rest are Latino, Asian...

White people live on the hills, so they suffered less damage.

African Americans are poor and live in low-lying areas, so they suffered the most severe damage.

Over the next few days, the eyes of the entire American public were fixed on Hurricane Katrina.

On August 25, Hurricane Katrina swept across the southern part of Florida as a Category 1 hurricane, causing 14 deaths.

Over the next few hours, Katrina rapidly intensified into a Category 5 hurricane, heading straight for the New Orleans area.

Although local weather forecasters had already communicated the danger of this hurricane to local citizens via television,

the city government remained hesitant and indecisive.

It wasn't until 10:00 AM on August 28 that the city government leadership finally made up their minds and issued a "mandatory" evacuation order.

Then, a group of citizens became dissatisfied.

"We want freedom!"

"Mandatory my ass!"

The city government quickly opened several shelters, the largest of which was the Superdome stadium, also known as the "Superdome."

At 6:10 AM on August 29, Hurricane Katrina made landfall near the town of Buras, about 100 kilometers southeast of New Orleans.

Then, strong easterly winds pushed the seawater of the Gulf of Mexico into Lake Pontchartrain, and after the hurricane reached Lake Pontchartrain, its position was exactly to the north of New Orleans, so it pushed the lake water toward the city.

At this time, many century-old trees were uprooted, tearing two large holes in the metal structure of the Superdome, and the torrential rain poured directly into the stadium, which at that moment housed nearly 30,000 citizens.

An hour later,