Reinventing Local American Corporations

By David Jungblut, Geologist

People out of work or in low level dead end jobs; local banks that served the community are for the most part gone; businesses leaving an area after they contaminated the local environment forcing taxpayers to pay for it; the Wall Street mess and global corporations no longer benefiting the American working class. Towns, townships, cities, counties, states and the country left to find solutions without money from the people who put us in this mess. Local money only a few decades ago would stay in a community and be used many times by local governments and businesses from employers to employees. Now money can enter a local bank that maybe owned by National or International Corporation and local area’s economy may not have an opportunity to use that money again. How do we fix the problems? We reinvent The Local American Corporation.

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Applying Research to Practical Use for Hurricane Katrina Homeowners

Homeowners Guide to Dealing with Hurricane Damage

I have studied the effects of Hurricane Katrina for the past year (including considerable on-the-ground field research) and have developed a number of techniques to help to determine what happened to dwellings during Hurricane Katrina. These and other techniques helped me to follow the destructive paths of Hurricane Katrinas powerful wind and water. My findings indicate that many houses were destroyed by water while others were destroyed by wind. However, vast numbers of dwellings were destroyed by both wind and water. Determining the direction that the wind hit your property versus the direction that the water hit, is very important to demonstrate that wind damaged your property during Hurricane Katrina.

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Scientific Methodology for Study on Wind and Water Damage During Hurricane Katrina

Scientific Methods Used for Hurricane Katrina Research

The damage inflicted by Hurricane Katrina was by far greater than any other hurricane in the recorded history of the United States of America. Why were so many properties destroyed during Hurricane Katrina? While the institutional reasons (failed levees, destruction of delta wetlands, etc.) for the vast flooding will be debated for years, the meteorological causes for the storms intensity can be traced to the following:

• One, the storm hit during high tide
• Two, the intensifying low-pressure Category IV/V storm, Hurricane Katrina, was moving northwest when it hit land
• Three, a blocking high was moving from the west to the east over Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi which resulted in the hurricane changing directions
• Four, the hurricane environment changed from a low friction, wet environment to a high friction, dry environment.
• Five, the combination of the events 1-4 resulted in the extreme high flooding and the released of massive amount of stored energy in the form of downbursts.

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Hurricane Katrina Wind Study Conclusions

Conclusions from Gulfport Mississippi to Ocean Springs Mississippi by Geologist David Jungblut Teacher at Oakcrest High School in New Jersey:

Hurricane Katrina damaged the area from Gulfport to Ocean Springs, Mississippi, because the wind and water energy was released from different directions.

As the hurricane approached landfall, it cut off the normal flow of water. Flooding of low-lying areas resulted, eventually causing a backward flow of water upstream.

The direction of this type of flooding would be determined by the topography of the land. As Hurricane Katrina moved closer, the normal hurricane wind circulation or “horizontal winds” started.

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