Ill Winds: Air Force Reserve's Response to Hurricanes

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Senior Airman Jonathan R. Ash and Technical Sergeant Ava M. Swedock, 337 th Airlift Squadron loadmasters, help a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) worker drive an emergency vehicle off a C-5 Galaxy at Lafayette Regional Airport, LA, on 31 August 2005. C-5s from Air Force Reserve Command’s 439 th Airlift Wing, Westover Air Reserve Base, MA, airlifted FEMA teams from California to Louisiana as part of Hurricane Katrina relief efforts. (USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Andrew Biscoe) 19 19 Photo and caption (U), TSgt Andrew Biscoe, “Emergency Off-load,” USAF photo, 31 Aug 05, available at http://www.af.mil/photos/media_search.asp?q=katrina&page=2. on 8 Nov 05. 6
31 Aug 05 The loss of life and property damage associated with Hurricane Katrina was worsened by breaks in the levees that separated New Orleans from surrounding lakes. At least 80 percent of New Orleans was flooded on August 31st, largely as a result of levee failures from Lake Pontchartrain. The combination of strong winds, heavy rainfall and storm surge were believed to be responsible for breaks in the earthen levee after the storm passed, leaving some parts of New Orleans under 20 feet of water. 20 A storm surge from Mobile Bay led to the inundation of Mobile, AL, causing imposition of a dusk-to-dawn curfew for the city. Large portions of Biloxi and Gulfport, MS, were underwater as a result of a 20 to 30+ foot storm surge that flooded the cities. 21 31 Aug 05 Headquarters Air Force Reserve Command Aeromedical Evacuation Branch (HQ AFRC/DOOE) had identified 26 additional crews at 0800L readily available for aeromedical evacuation missions from the following organizations: 94 th (Dobbins ARB, GA); 315 th (Charleston AFB, SC); 349 th (Travis AFB, CA); 433 rd (Lackland AFB, TX); 439 th (Westover ARB, MA); 514 th (McGuire AFB, NJ); 622 nd (MacDill AFB, FL); 714 th (McGuire AFB, NJ); 908 th (Maxwell AFB, AL); 911 th (Pittsburgh IAP ARS, PA); 914 th (Niagara IAP ARS, NY); 932 nd (Scott AFB, IL); and the 934 th (Minneapolis-St Paul IAP ARS, MN.) 22 20 A pool of water formed in the lawn of a house adjacent to the 17 th Street Canal in New Orleans. The pool, which had reached a size of 75 feet by 10 feet in December 2004, was identified by a New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board worker as coming from the levee. Art (U), Frank Langfitt, “Residents Say Levee Leaked Months Before Katrina,” available at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5022074 on 28 Nov 04. 21 Web page (U), NOAA Satellite Information Service, “Summary of Hurricane Katrina,” available at http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/2005/katrina.html on 28 Oct 05. 22 Timeline (U), HQ AFRC/DOOE, “Hurricane Katrina Comprehensive Timeline,” as of 4 Oct 05. 7
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