1704 W. 7 th Street, Frederick, MD 21702 800.328.5563, info@reevesems.com, www.reevesems.com It Could Happen Again How New Orleans is using mobile shelter systems to get ready for future emergency events. A Case Study Setting the Stage In the late summer of 2005, the City of New Orleans experienced an event of extreme proportions. The effect of Hurricane Katrina on the City was catastrophic and long-lasting. When the center of Katrina passed east of New Orleans on August 29, 2005, winds were in the Category 2 range, and tidal surges were equivalent to a Category 3 hurricane. Though the most severe portion of Katrina missed the city, the storm surge caused more than 50 breaches in drainage canal levees and also in navigational canal levees and precipitated the w

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