Damage, Deaths, Aftermath, & Facts. Top Questions What was Hurricane Katrina?
Hurricane Katrina was a tropical cyclone that struck the southeastern United States in late August 2005. The hurricane and its aftermath claimed more than 1,800 lives, and it ranked as the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history. Who was Hurricane Katrina named after? There is no particular person for whom Hurricane Katrina was named. Winter Season Summary 2005 - 2006. Winter 2005 - 2006 The Winter of 2005-06 was a fairly benign one across western and central New York.
Snowfall was well below normal across much of the region as there was a near complete absence of synoptic (general) snowfalls. The Lake effect machine was quite active though, primarily during two periods, late November to mid December, and through mid and late February. There were actually 13 lake effect "events" for the winter (normal is nine), but most were fairly modest. They repeatedly focused on the typical snowbelt areas off both Lakes (even Erie in Feb which usually freezes but saw little ice this winter). New York City. New York City, officially named the City of New York, is the most populous city in the United States, and the most densely populated major city in North America.
The city is at the center of international finance, politics, entertainment, and culture, and is one of the world's major global cities (along with London, Tokyo and Paris) with a virtually unrivaled collection of museums, galleries, performance venues, media outlets, international corporations, and stock exchanges. The city is also home to the United Nations, along with all of the international missions associated with it. Located in the state of New York, New York City has a population of over 8 million within an area of 309 square miles (800 km²). It is at the heart of the New York Metropolitan Area, which is one of the largest urban conglomerations in the world with a population of over 22 million. Top Food Trends from 2000 to 2010. iStock 2000: The Cupcake Craze Carrie Bradshaw hits New York City's cupcake mecca Magnolia Bakery on Sex and the City, igniting the cupcake trend.
Over the next several years, popular New York- and Los Angeles-based cupcake shops like Crumbs and Sprinkles expand into multi-state franchises; local cupcakeries sprout up on street corners galore; and by 2009, the number of new cupcake cookbooks reaches what Publishers Weekly calls a "deluge. " Craving mini bundles of cakey goodness? Bake up Martha Stewart's best cupcake recipes. Teens and Technology.
Close to nine in ten teens are internet users.
The vast majority of teens in the United States, 87% of those aged 12 to 17, now use the internet. That amounts to about 21 million youth who use the internet, up from roughly 17 million when we surveyed this age cohort in late 2000. Not only has the wired share of the teenage population grown, but teens’ use of the internet has intensified.
Teenagers now use the internet more often and in a greater variety of ways than they did in 2000. There are now approximately 11 million teens who go online daily, compared to about 7 million in 2000. Rural Public Transportation Systems. Rural public transportation systems serve communities outside of urban areas.
Types of rural public transportation include demand–response public transportation (dial-a-ride), traditional and deviated fixed route services (e.g., shuttles, circulators), vanpool, or reimbursement programs. The need for rural public transportation has historically been linked with providing mobility and accessibility to essential employment, goods, and services for older adults, persons with disabilities, low-income persons, and others.
In reviewing data from 2000 to 2005, APTA found that nearly 9% of public transportation trips were for medical purposes in areas with populations less than 200,000. AARP emphasizes that “access to health care is a key purpose of local public transportation services and rural public transportation programs.” Related Transportation and Heath Tool Indicators. 23 Things That Were Cool In 2005 But Definitely Aren't Now. 53 Slang Terms by Decade. The slang we used in 2005. As Time Out Chicago marks its tenth anniversary, I thought paging through our earliest issues might give me a sense of the kind of slang we were tossing around a decade ago.
And yet nothing lept off the page; what if, I wondered, there were words that were new to us then have become so common as to be unremarkable? With that in mind, I consulted dictionaries, pop charts and Hollywood box-office rankings to recall how we talked in 2005. In one serious sign of the times, blog and podcast both came into their own with the general public around the time we launched as a print magazine (whoops!). Merriam-Webster named blog the word of the year at the end of 2004, while podcast took top honors from the New Oxford American Dictionary for 2005.
To have time to read all those blogs and listen to all those podcasts, we all started looking for productivity-boosting life hacks. Traditional and Nontraditional Gender Roles and Work—Family Interface for Men and Women - Kristin M. Perrone, Stephen L. Wright, Z. Vance Jackson, 2009. The 2005 Fashion Trends No One Wants to Revisit Anytime Soon. 2000s Fashion for Men - The Fashion Wolf. The ARC Archive: Top Artists of 2005.
Top 100 Hits of 2005/Top 100 Songs of 2005. 10 Major News Stories of the 2000s. The first decade of the 21st century was filled with major news events that include tragic acts of terrorism, natural and humanitarian international disasters, and celebrity deaths.
Some of the events that rocked the world in the 2000s continue to reverberate years later. They influence government policy, disaster response, military strategy, and more.