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In total, it is estimated that over a million people were displaced by Hurricane Katrina. [9] 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 ...
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.
Hurricane Katrina was the first natural disaster in the United States in which the American Red Cross used its "Safe and Well" family location website. [162] [163] Direct Relief provided a major response in the Gulf states so health providers could treat the local patients and evacuees.
It's not just a lack of preparedness. I think the easy answer is to say that these are poor people and black people and so the government doesn't give a damn ... there might be some truth to that. But I think we've got to see this as a serious problem of the long-term neglect of an environmental system on which our nation depends." [109]
Belle Chasse, La. (WGNO) – Increased stuttering, fear of traveling, bedwetting and anxiety over bad weather are all long-term effects on some of today's teens who lived through Katrina as toddlers.
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital is a 2013 non-fiction book by the American journalist Sheri Fink.The book details the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina at Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans in August 2005, and is an expansion of a Pulitzer Prize-winning article written by Fink and published in The New York Times Magazine in 2009.
Angela Perkins made it to the convention center in New Orleans. It was September 1, 2005, three days after Hurricane Katrina made landfall and New Orleans’s levee system had collapsed, and most ...
The National Weather Service bulletin for the New Orleans region of 10:11 a.m., August 28, 2005, was a particularly dire warning issued by the local Weather Forecast Office in Slidell, Louisiana, warning of the devastation that Hurricane Katrina could wreak upon the Gulf Coast of the United States, and the human suffering that would follow once the storm left the area.