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In 2006, 200,000 people called New Orleans home, a significant drop from the population of nearly half a million before Katrina. [10] [11] Of the rest of those who were displaced, about 40% moved to Texas and the rest went farther to either New York, Ohio, or even California. [12] Prior to Hurricane Katrina, the New Orleans Housing Authority ...
White House and homeland security officials wouldn't explain why Chertoff waited some 36 hours to declare Katrina an incident of national significance and why he didn't immediately begin to direct the federal response from the moment on Aug. 27 when the National Hurricane Center predicted that Katrina would strike the Gulf Coast with ...
Texas avoided any direct damage from Hurricane Katrina, but the state took in an estimated 220,000 people who sought refuge from Louisiana. On August 31, the Harris County, Texas Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management and the State of Louisiana came to an agreement to allow at least 25,000 evacuees from New Orleans, especially those who were sheltered in the Louisiana ...
The black community bore the brunt of Katrina's wrath in many ways, and the data shows the help that's been doled out since hasn't been equal. Post-Katrina, blacks have been left out of recovery ...
When Katrina destroyed 75% of the housing units in New Orleans, the agency scurried to respond to the disaster, spending $2.7 billion on 145,000 trailers and mobile homes to house an estimated ...
The Chandeleur Islands, before Katrina (left) and after (right), showing the impact of the storm along coastal areas. The storm caused oil spills from 44 facilities throughout southeastern Louisiana, which resulted in over 7 million US gallons (26,000 m 3) of oil being leaked. Some spills were only a few hundred gallons and most were contained ...
August 29 marks the 10-year anniversary of the day that Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana, and since then, New Orleans and surrounding areas have never been the same.
Following Katrina, many said that the hurricane had a greater impact on Black and less economically privileged people than it had on predominantly white and wealthier people. “The city’s remarkable recovery has, to a troubling degree, left behind the African-Americans who still make up the majority of its population,” according to ...